If you enjoyed Erik Larson's The Devil in The White City, which was a National Book Award finalist and a winner of the Edgar award for true crime writing, don’t miss Thunderstruck.
Once again Larson intertwines the lives of two men – one famous, Guglielmo Marconi, and one infamous, Dr. H.H. Crippen.
This book is thought provoking on many levels. As the Publishers Weekly starred review so succinctly states: “Thunderstruck triumphantly resurrects the spirit of another age, when one man's public genius linked the world, while another's private turmoil made him a symbol of the end of "the great hush" and the first victim of a new era when instant communication, now inescapable, conquered the world.”
Hmmm. Now the Menendez brothers and Scott Peterson are household words. Of course, O.J. was a celebrity to begin with. Inescapable, indeed.
