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ThunderstruckErik Larson, Erik Larson
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Thunderstruck

480 pagesFirst published 200613 editions
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A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush." In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose 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 shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionTransworld Publishers Limited20105449781409044765
EditionPenguin Random House2010—9781409044772
EditionDoubleday2007—9780385608459
EditionW.F. Howes20075799781846329340
PaperbackThree Rivers Press20074809781400080670
HardcoverRandom House Large Print20066569780739326763
EditionFindaway World Llc2006—9780739375617
EbookCrown Publishing Group2006—9780307351920
EditionCrown Publishers20064639781400080663
AudiobookBooks on Tape2006—9781415932797
AudiobookRH Audio2006—9780739339633
AudiobookRH Audio2006—9780739339657
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