Thunderstruck Erik Larson Crown Publishing/non-fiction, historical Release Date: 2006 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 [...]