Long Mile Home, Scott Helman
Long Mile Home, Scott Helman
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Long Mile Home
Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice

Author: Scott Helman, Jenna Russell

Narrator: Jim Frangione

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/01/2014

Synopsis

The full story of the Boston Marathon bombing, the hunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, and a city's brave response to terror--drawing from Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the story in The Boston Globe.
 
When two bombs exploded at the densely crowded finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, the whole world watched in shock as the story unfolded. First, the death toll and life-altering injuries. Next, the identification of the suspects—Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev—and the tense manhunt that brought Boston to a standstill. And, finally, the courageous and inspiring recovery of a wounded American city.
 Long Mile Home is the riveting tale of that tragic, surreal, and ultimately inspiring week. Boston Globe journalists Scott Helman and Jenna Russell tell the full story through the eyes of five principal characters—a police officer, a lost daughter, a determined survivor, a trauma surgeon, and the marathon director—tracing the paths that brought them to a tragic intersection with two murderous brothers on that infamous day in April. Including never-before-told stories, unexpected revelations, and unforgettable moments of heroism and humanity, Long Mile Home is both an absorbing, action-packed narrative and a lasting tribute to the bravery and resiliency of the Boston community.

With a New Afterword by the Authors

About The Author

Scott Helman is a staff writer at the Boston Globe Magazine and coauthor of The Real Romney.Jenna Russell was one of the reporters at the forefront of the Globe’s coverage of the bombing and is a coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Last Lion.

Reviews

Goodreads review by AJourneyWithoutMap on April 12, 2014

Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice by Scott Helman and Jenna Russell, who are reporters for The Boston Globe, is an absorbing, balanced and well-written account which brings back images of the fear and chaos that ruled the city in the i......more

Goodreads review by Meredith on February 18, 2016

While two brothers wanted the world to remember April 15, 2013 for many reasons, I will not remember it the way they intended people to. I will remember April 15th, 2013 for the bravery, courage, and strength of a city that jumped to it’s feet the moment it was knocked down and fought back with love......more

Goodreads review by Kati on December 16, 2014

It’s incredibly hard to write this review, just as this is an incredibly hard book to read. Neither my off-the-mark review nor the difficulty of this book should keep you away, though. Why is it so difficult to write? After all, it’s not an unfamiliar subject. It’s not something I don’t know enough......more

Goodreads review by Chris on April 25, 2014

Written by two Boston Globe reporters, this book uses the stories of five people to recount the terrible events of April 15, 2013, the day horror came to what was traditionally a joyous day in Boston: two young women who came to the city to watch the race, one to lose her life and the other her leg;......more

Goodreads review by Bryan on April 24, 2014

While it was mostly a re-tread of the Boston Globe's coverage of the 2013 Marathon bombing, it is a re-tread of Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of said bombing, with speculation removed. It does tend toward the melodramatic, but it makes for a quick read and gives the reader a good idea as to what i......more

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Praise for Long Mile Home

"A new book about the Boston Marathon bombings last April is more gripping than a mystery novel, has more deeply drawn characters than a literary novel and is enriched by the details of a history book...It's an incredible story, and the heart-rending pictures in the middle of the book are a stark reminder that it's real, not fiction." - Associated Press

"The account by tow Boston Globe reporters, Scott Helman and Jenna Russell, succeeds in every way. It is a harrowing narrative of the events and a behind-the-scenes look at the public officials and everyday people forever changed by the attack. It is also a portrait of a major American city, its psyche and the distance runners who consider the race a sacred rite." - The Washington Post

"Long Mile Home—at times gripping, occasionally hopeful, always heartbreaking—is essential to understanding what happened last April, and, in some ways, the city in which those events happened." - Boston Globe 
“A riveting piece of journalism and an exceptional tribute to a great American city that manages to avoid being sentimental or syrupy.” –USA TODAY

“Accounts of heroism, pride, and victory in the aftermath of tragedy make this must-read surprisingly uplifting”—Fitness

"This is a stunning, mesmerizing and fascinating book. We get to see the horror close up, its beginnings, enactment and its terrible legacies. This is a remarkable achievement of a still stupefying act." - Providence Journal

"[A] gripping account”—New York Daily News

“A suspenseful and emotional experience.”—Sarasota Herald-Tribune

"A wonderful work of narrative journalism" - The Telegraph

"In a remarkable work of narrative journalism, Boston Globe journalists Helman (co-author: The Real Romney, 2012) and Russell (co-author: Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, 2009), with support from their comrades at the Globe’s news department, map out the heartbreaks, dogged pursuits and courageous acts of defiance that resulted from one of America’s most foolhardy and cowardly acts of terrorism...Journalism that demonstrates all the arguments why we need professionals to tell the stories that mark our generations and a valentine to the people that proved Boston Strong." - Kirkus

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