Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Broadway Books
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

A true story of love murder and the end of the worlds great hush. In Thunderstruck Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two menHawley Crippen a very unlikely murderer and Guglielmo Marconi the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communicationwhose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall Cape Cod and Nova Scotia Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great co