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Title:Killer Show
Author:John Barylick
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 324 pages
Published:May 26th 2015 by ForeEdge (first published July 25th 2012)
Categories:Nonfiction. Crime. True Crime. Music. History

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On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of many of the unsuspecting nightclub patrons was determined with awful certainty. The blaze was ignited when pyrotechnics set off by Great White, a 1980s heavy-metal band, lit flammable polyurethane "egg crate" foam sound insulation on the club's walls. In less than 10 minutes, 96 people were dead and 200 more were injured, many catastrophically. The final death toll topped out, three months later, at the eerily unlikely round number of 100.

The story of the fire, its causes, and its legal and human aftermath is one of lives put at risk by petty economic decisions—by a band, club owners, promoters, building inspectors, and product manufacturers. Any one of those decisions, made differently, might have averted the tragedy. Together, however, they reached a fatal critical mass.

Killer Show is the first comprehensive exploration of the chain of events leading up to the fire, the conflagration itself, and the painstaking search for evidence to hold the guilty to account and obtain justice for the victims.

Anyone who has entered an entertainment venue and wondered, "Could I get out of here in a hurry?" will identify with concertgoers at The Station. Fans of disaster nonfiction and forensic thrillers will find ample elements of both genres in Killer Show.

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ISBN: 1611682657 (ISBN13: 9781611682656)
Edition Language: English

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Fantastic. A must read for anyone who cares about law, public safety or the untold stories of the victims of a horrific yet utterly preventable tragedy.

The Station Nightclub fire is one of the most horrifying tragedies to take place in the United States. A fire started by sheer incompetence at best, that in under ninety seconds consumed the building and with it, over ninety lives. But what is amazing about this book is how it details the fact that the fire wasn't just a regrettable, heart wrenching mistake but the result of corruption, laziness, and greed. The building eventually known simply as The Station went through several transformations,

Extremely gripping and extremely well researched account of the small steps taken by dozens of people that led to 100 people dying.

All over the world, hundreds of people continue to die in nightclub fires, due to overcrowding, insufficient exits, inflammable wall coverings and furnishings, and the use of pyrotechnics. We tend to think of these tragedies as those that occur in places where public safety laws are lax or unenforced. If you wonder how it can be than only 10 years ago, a hundred people would die in Rhode Island - with the combined federal, state and local buildings codes, fire safety laws, and government

Excellent book, that should have won, or been shortlisted for the Edgar, the year of it's eligibility. The author tells an engrossing story, full of love, heartache, crime, drama, resilience, resolution, injustice, and amazement. The fact that it is all True, and not fiction, majes his achievment, all tbe more memorable, and spectacular. This is a book, and a cautionary tale, for all to read, not just thos who lost loved ones

If you've ever attended a rock concert at a hole-in-the wall venue you'll thank your lucky stars you're still alive after you read Killer Show. The first part of the book is well-paced and I could not put it down. Once Barylick gets into the lawsuit stuff he gets a little too wonky and seems to forget that his audience is probably not predominantly other lawyers. There are also times in the book when his tone seems off (flippant or condescending at times) considering the subject matter. But I