Conrad B. (Phunter) reviewed on 9/3/2014 + 35 more book reviews

Erik Larson seems to have created a formula for his books - take two disparate events (one small and intimate, one large and public), tell the stories simultaneously and show how they converge at some point. It is a combination that worked well in 'Devil in the White City' and 'In the Garden of Beasts'. The same formula works once more in this retelling of the development of wireless radio by Marconi and of a murder in London that grabbed global headlines. It was an interesting story but not riveting

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