Thunderstruck
(Audiobook)

by the author of The Devil in the White City.

Sherry Huber, Exec. Producer; Louis Milgrom, Producer

Read by Tony Goldwyn

In Thuderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Gugliemo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication - whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances dazzled the public, and the rich outdid one another with ostentations displays of wealth. Against this backgroudn, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, "the kindest of men" nearly commits the perfect crime.