{"title":"William Elliott Hazelgrove","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Elliott Hazelgrove crafts gripping stories that blend the shadowy intrigue of \u003cem\u003eCrime \u0026amp; Thriller\u003c\/em\u003e with rich insights into \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e. His narratives often plunge readers into atmospheric settings where suspense and mystery unfold against compelling backdrops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect taut plots and vividly drawn characters in titles like \u003cstrong\u003eDead Air\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eEvil on the Roof of the World\u003c\/strong\u003e, where tension simmers beneath cultural textures, inviting readers to explore the darker corners of human ambition and deception.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"evil-on-the-roof-of-the-world-by-william-elliott-hazelgrove-9798881800383","title":"Evil on the Roof of the World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn a bleak highway in the mountains of Tajikistan known as \"the roof of the world\", in July of 2018, Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin, along with two other cyclists, were brutally murdered by five ISIS terrorists.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey were both Georgetown University graduates who had quit their well-paying Washington, DC, jobs to pursue a bike trip around the world, looking for a different kind of American Dream. Pieced together from Jay and Lauren's Simply Cycling travel blog and social media posts, interviews with their friends and family, and media coverage of their murder, author William Elliott Hazelgrove creates a complete, narrative retelling of Jay and Lauren's story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvil on the Roof of the World\u003c\/em\u003e combines biking and travel adventure with true crime elements, sensitively presenting the trajectory of Jay and Lauren’s hopeful beginnings; the difficulties and meaningful experiences they found on their journey; the foreshadowing leading up to the attack; and the way they, their loved ones, the media, and the perpetrators made sense of this violent encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike Jon Krakauer's \u003cem\u003eInto The Wild\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a story of a couple who went off the grid to find the great adventure of life only to have it end in tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558918734060,"sku":"9798881800383","price":44.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798881800383-evil-on-the-roof-of-the-world.jpg?v=1776921874"},{"product_id":"dead-air-by-william-elliott-hazelgrove-9781538187166","title":"Dead Air","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"granular history\" (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e) of the greatest hoax in radio history and the panic that followed, which \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e calls \"a rollicking portrait of a director on the cusp of greatness\" and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, in a starred review, says, \"Hazelgrove’s feverishly focused retelling of the broadcast as well as the fallout makes for a propulsive read as a study of both a cultural moment of mass hysteria and the singular voice at its root.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a warm Halloween Eve, October 30, 1938, during a broadcast of H G. Wells’ \u003ci\u003eWar of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, a twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles held his hands up for radio silence in the CBS studio in New York City while millions of people ran out into the night screaming, grabbed shotguns, drove off in cars, and hid in basements, attics, or anywhere they could find to get away from Martians intent on exterminating the human race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Welles held up his hands to his fellow actors, musicians, and sound technicians, he turned six seconds of radio silence—dead air—into absolute horror, changing how the world would view media forever, and making himself one of the most famous men in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDead Air: The Night that Orson Welles Terrified America\u003c\/i\u003e, William Elliot Hazelgrove illustrates for the first time how Orson Welles’ broadcast caused massive panic in the United States, convincing listeners across the nation that the end of the World had arrived and even leading military and government officials to become involved. Using newspaper accounts of the broadcast, Hazelgrove shows the true, staggering effect that Welles’ opera of panic had on the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Welles’ incredible rise from a young man who lost his parents early to a child prodigy of the stage, \u003ci\u003eDead Air\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a Welles who threw his Hail Mary with \u003ci\u003eWar of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, knowing full well that obscurity and fame are two sides of the same coin. 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