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"Deserves a spot next to  Fast Food Nation  and  To Kill a Mockingbird  in America’s high school curriculums. To say it may save lives is self-evident.” — New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, Chrisitian Science Monitor, Amazon, Kirkus, Winnipeg Free Press

One of the decade's most original and masterfully reported books,  A Deadly Wandering  by Pulitzer Prize–winning  New York Times  journalist Matt Richtel interweaves the cutting-edge science of attention with the tensely plotted story of a mysterious car accident and its aftermath to answer some of the defining questions of our time:  What is technology doing to us? Can our minds keep up with the pace of change? How can we find balance?

On the last day of summer, an ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally struck two rocket scientists while texting and driving along a majestic stretch of highway bordering the Rocky Mountains.  A Deadly Wandering  follows Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the state's groundbreaking prosecution, and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility. Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings on the impact technology has on our brains, showing how these devices play to our deepest social instincts. A propulsive read filled with surprising scientific detail, riveting narrative tension, and rare emotional depth,  A Deadly Wandering  is a book that can change—and save—lives.

• Print length 416 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Mariner Books
• Publication date June 2, 2015
• Dimensions 5.31 x 0.94 x 8 inches
• ISBN-10 006228407X
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“Richtel’s compassionate and persuasive book deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America’s high school curriculums. To say it may save lives is self-evident.” — New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

“Keen and elegantly raw. ... Not just a morality tale but a probe sent into the world of technology. ... Richtel draws all the characters with a fine brush, a delicacy that treats misery both respectfully and front-on.” — Christian Science Monitor (One of the 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year)

“Americans are addicted to their technology, putting us on a modern day collision course with very real consequences. Matt Richtel brilliantly tells the story of the aftermath of a deadly distracted driving crash. His portrait is riveting. I could not stop reading, and neither will you.” — Ray LaHood, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation

“A portrait of our digital age that will deeply frighten you and cause you to reevaluate many common aspects of your ‘connected’ life. ... An extraordinarily important book that everyone—and I mean everyone—should read.” — Douglas Preston, co-author of The Monster of Florence

“A masterpiece of reporting, insight, and empathy. ... A beautiful, cautionary tale that reads like a novel, and that we disregard at our risk.” — Robert Kurson, author of Shadow Divers

“ A Deadly Wandering is more than a page-turner. It’s a book that can save lives.” — Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows

“Matt Richtel’s riveting book is narrative nonfiction at its finest. ... This book should be placed in every school and legislative chamber in the country.” — Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah

“This book does that most amazing of feats: it makes cutting-edge scientific research feel relevant to the choices we make every time we get in a car, sit at a desk, or talk to our friends and family.” — Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit

“A gripping book. ... This is human drama and the latest knowledge about obsessive technology woven together in memorable style.” — Ralph Nader, author of Unsafe at Any Speed

“A compelling, highly emotional, and profoundly important story.” — Kirkus Reviews (Starred; a Best Book of the Year)

“Illuminates the perils of information overload... Raises fascinating and troubling issues about the cognitive impact of our technology.” — Publishers Weekly

Intensely gripping, compelling, and sobering... A Deadly Wandering gives the potentially lethal risks of the digital age a very human face -- one which we can, if we’re honest, readily see in the mirror.” — Winnipeg Free Press (A Best Book of the Year)

“Exhaustively researched. ... Richtel brings a novelist’s knack for unspooling narrative conflict to bear on Shaw’s real-life drama.” — San Francisco Chronicle (A Best Book of the Year)

“Each page is... irresistible. ... A richly detailed and compellingly readable exploration of the ‘clash’ between our brains and the electronic devices that, for many of us, have become essential to ‘every facet of life.’” — Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Fabulously well-researched and brilliantly told. ... Moving and interesting." — Paula Poundstone

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San Francisco Chronicle Christian Science Monitor Kirkus Reviews Winnipeg Free Press

One of the year's most original and masterfully reported books, A Deadly Wandering by Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist Matt Richtel interweaves the cutting-edge science of attention with the tensely plotted story of a mysterious car accident and its aftermath to answer some of the defining questions of our time: What is technology doing to us? Can our minds keep up with the pace of change? How can we find balance?

On the last day of summer, an ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally struck two rocket scientists while texting and driving along a majestic stretch of highway bordering the Rocky Mountains. A Deadly Wandering follows Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the state's groundbreaking prosecution, and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility. Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings on the impact technology has on our brains, showing how these devices play to our deepest social instincts. A propulsive read filled with surprising scientific detail, riveting narrative tension, and rare emotional depth, A Deadly Wandering is a book that can change—and save—lives.

About the Author

Matt Richtel is a reporter at the New York Times . He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving that he expanded into his first nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering , a New York Times bestseller. His second nonfiction book, An Elegant Defense , on the human immune system, was a national bestseller and chosen by Bill Gates for his annual Summer Reading List. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air , CBS This Morning , PBS NewsHour , and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books; Reprint edition (June 2, 2015)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 006228407X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062284075
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.1 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.94 x 8 inches
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Matt richtel.

Matt Richtel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and bestselling writer of mysteries and thrillers. His books are fast-paced, character-centered stories in which things are not always as they seem. The backdrop for the books is the modern world. Technology is everywhere. Everything moves at lightning speed, from conspiracy, to love, business, and violence. Technology is our slave. Or has it become our dark master?

The books relate to Matt's journalism. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for a series of stories on distracted driving. The next year, he wrote an acclaimed series for the New York Times called "Your Brain On Computers" exploring how heavy technology use impacts our behavior and our brains.

Matt lives with his family in San Francisco. He writes from an office with a window that looks onto the former house of baseball legend Willie Mays. He -- Matt, not Willie -- is an avid tennis player, takes pride in making guacamole and coffee, and writes the occasional song.

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By Robert Kolker

• Sept. 25, 2014

Reggie Shaw is the man responsible for the most moving portion of “From One Second to the Next,” the director Werner Herzog’s excruciating (even by Werner Herzog standards) 35-minute public service announcement, released last year as part of AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign against texting and driving. In the film, Shaw, now in his 20s, recounts the rainy morning in September 2006 that he crossed the line of a Utah highway, knocking into a car containing two scientists, James Furfaro and Keith O’Dell, who were heading to work nearby. Both men were killed. Shaw says he was ­texting a girlfriend at the time, adding in unmistakable anguish that he can’t even ­remember what he was texting about. He is next seen taking part in something almost inconceivable: He enters the scene where one of the dead men’s daughters is being interviewed, and receives from that woman a warm, earnest, tearful, cathartic hug.

Reggie Shaw’s redemptive journey — from thoughtless, inadvertent killer to denier of his own culpability to one of the nation’s most powerful spokesmen on the dangers of texting while behind the wheel — was first brought to national attention by Matt Richtel, a reporter for The New York Times, whose series of articles about distracted driving won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010. Now, five years later, in “A Deadly Wandering,” Richtel gives Shaw’s story the thorough, emotional treatment it is due, interweaving a detailed chronicle of the science behind distracted driving. As an instructive social parable, Richtel’s densely reported, at times forced yet compassionate and persuasive book deserves a spot next to “Fast Food Nation” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” in America’s high school curriculums. To say it may save lives is self-evident.

What makes the deaths in this book so affecting is how ordinary they are. Two men get up in the morning. They get behind the wheel. A stranger loses track of his car. They crash. The two men die. The temptation is to make the tragedy bigger than it is, to invest it with meaning. Which may explain why Richtel wonders early on if Reggie Shaw lied about texting and driving at first because he was in denial, or because technology “can hijack the brain,” polluting his memory. In short chapters that break up the story of the crash, Richtel delivers the history of cognitive neuroscience, from its origins in World War II, helping pilots and radar operators save lives by not being overwhelmed by the technology in front of them, to later M.R.I. brain studies of multitasking and what came to be called attention science. Richtel presents each scholar, researcher, study and theory largely without judgment, but the even-handedness has a leveling effect that makes it hard to know what the author feels is most important. The larger potential problem here, perhaps, is that generally speaking, the big takeaway of the texting-and-driving question just isn’t that complicated: Put down the frickin’ phone.

Still, there are rewards. Richtel explains how researchers have found that distraction is the antagonist of attention, not its opposite. It’s an interesting distinction. Distraction is the devil in your ear — not always the result of an attention deficit, but borne of our own desires. We are distracted because we want to be. Why else would they sell so many smartphones? As Richtel explains, a good gadget is essentially magical, commandeering our focus with delight and surprise and ease (Steve Jobs used the word “magical” about the iPhone when it debuted). The smartphone brilliantly exploits both types of attention, “top down” (what we want to focus on) and “bottom up” (what takes us by surprise). The intimacy of smartphones is, if not addictive, then certainly seductive. Not all distractions are created equal: The impairment of drunken driving, for instance, is consistently huge, while the impairment of texting is ­arguably more intense but shorter in duration. The researchers Richtel quotes have found that drivers are impaired for up to 15 seconds after they text — far longer than most drivers would ever think. The stronger a phone’s hold has on us, the more money the phone companies can make. Richtel’s account of ways the telecommunications industry originally ­suppressed safety concerns over cellphone use while driving is blood-boiling.

Reggie Shaw, meanwhile, is meant to perform as a proxy for a generation that grew up on Nintendo and personal computers — “the all-American boy” who ­“always made the right choices,” yet whose digital life encroached on his real one. Shaw grows more interesting when his quirks shine through. A fundamentally decent teenager, Shaw nevertheless had things he was ashamed of and family expectations to live up to. His pattern, even before the crash, was to dissemble in order not to make trouble for those around him. Once the tragedy happened, Richtel writes, “the intensity with which the ­family undertook the defense had a self-perpetuating and escalating force: Reggie denied texting, the family backed him up and Reggie, never someone to let others down, dug deeper.”

Richtel locates not one but two Inspector Javert types: the state trooper who responded to the crash and almost immediately decided Shaw was lying about not texting (“He kind of goes after people,” an attorney says about him), and a victims advocate named Terryl Warner, whose own story is every bit as fascinating and redemptive as Shaw’s. The prelude to the trial is fascinating: Should Reggie be charged with negligence or manslaughter, or nothing at all? Even if texting and driving is wrong, should he have known that? In Richtel’s sensitive account, we come face to face with the horrible Catch-22 of accident litigation that discourages one party from apologizing to another, for fear of admitting liability. This apparent standoffishness helped persuade the ­prosecutor to make Shaw a test case for texting and driving. Which in turn caused Shaw’s family to accuse the prosecutor of waging a witch hunt. Which only appalled the victims’ widows and families and advocates even more.

Richtel displays admirable empathy for everyone involved but reserves a special place in his heart for Reggie — impassive and forlorn, monosyllabic but tortured, evasive yet sincere. Shaw’s conversion is depicted with revelatory precision, his epiphany realistically subdued and painstakingly gradual. “The fight seemed to be going out of him bit by bit,” Richtel writes, before the floodgates opened, “his private and public selves beginning to reconcile.” By the book’s end, Shaw is a raw nerve, unable to stop confessing in speeches around the country. Even the relatives of those he killed worry he’ll never be able to close the floodgates again.

The most powerful question raised by “A Deadly Wandering” is a simple one: If we know texting and driving is so bad for us, why do we still do it? Richtel tries out several analogies to describe the rush we get from a phone: alcohol, drugs, television, video games, junk food, the ­fight-or-flight response to a tap on a shoulder. (The television comparison is weakest, perhaps because so few of the people in the book agree with it.) My favorite analogy of Richtel’s is the slot machine. Our bodies love the little hit of dopamine we get each time we check our phones for something, anything. And just like a one-armed bandit, more often than not, our phones rarely offer terribly exciting results when we check them. Even so, that doesn’t stop us from coming back for more dozens of times a day — during movies, out at dinner, on our way to wherever we’re going, unsafe at any speed.

A DEADLY WANDERING

A tale of tragedy and redemption in the age of attention.

By Matt Richtel

403 pp. William Morrow/HarperCollins ­Publishers. $28.99.

Robert Kolker is a writer for New York magazine and the author of “Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.”

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"Deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America's high school curriculums. To say it may save lives is self-evident." —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, Chrisitian Science Monitor, Kirkus, Winnipeg Free Press

One of the decade's most original and masterfully reported books, A Deadly Wandering by Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist Matt Richtel interweaves the cutting-edge science of attention with the tensely plotted story of a mysterious car accident and its aftermath to answer some of the defining questions of our time: What is technology doing to us? Can our minds keep up with the pace of change? How can we find balance?

On the last day of summer, an ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally struck two rocket scientists while texting and driving along a majestic stretch of highway bordering the Rocky Mountains. A Deadly Wandering follows Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the state's groundbreaking prosecution, and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility. Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings on the impact technology has on our brains, showing how these devices play to our deepest social instincts. A propulsive read filled with surprising scientific detail, riveting narrative tension, and rare emotional depth, A Deadly Wandering is a book that can change—and save—lives.

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"Deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America's high school curriculums. To say it may save lives is self-evident." —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, Chrisitian Science Monitor, Kirkus, Winnipeg Free Press

One of the decade's most original and masterfully reported books, A Deadly Wandering by Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist Matt Richtel interweaves the cutting-edge science of attention with the tensely plotted story of a mysterious car accident and its aftermath to answer some of the defining questions of our time: What is technology doing to us? Can our minds keep up with the pace of change? How can we find balance?

On the last day of summer, an ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally struck two rocket scientists while texting and driving along a majestic stretch of highway bordering the Rocky Mountains. A Deadly Wandering follows Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the state's groundbreaking prosecution, and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility. Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings on the impact technology has on our brains, showing how these devices play to our deepest social instincts. A propulsive read filled with surprising scientific detail, riveting narrative tension, and rare emotional depth, A Deadly Wandering is a book that can change—and save—lives.

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A Deadly Wandering is a 2014 nonfiction book by Matt Richtel, a journalist at The New York Times . After winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for a series of articles detailing the dangers of distracted driving, Richtel expanded his research and reporting into A Deadly Wandering . This nonfiction book combines the story of a 2006 Utah car accident—in which Mormon teenager Reggie Shaw killed two scientists, James Furfaro and Keith O’Dell, while texting and driving—and the science of attention and distraction. The tragedy became a rallying cry for bringing public awareness to the dangers of texting while driving. Before 2006, only a handful of states had some kind of texting-and-driving laws on the books; whereas now, 47 states ban it to some degree.

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The narrative portion of the book describes the effects of distracted driving. In 2006, Reggie Shaw is sent home from his Mormon mission because he confesses to having had premarital sex with his girlfriend. He gets a painting job in Utah. The car accident happens when he is driving to work on a mountainous road—he drifts over the double yellow line dividing traffic and clips a car carrying two rocket scientists. The scientists’ car spins and slams into another car, killing the two men on impact. One state trooper on the scene, Bart Rindlisbacher , suspects Reggie of texting and driving.

Terryl Warner—a victims’ advocate who had a tough childhood involving an alcoholic father and disengaged mother—gets involved in Reggie’s case on behalf of Jackie Furfaro and Leila O’Dell, the wives of the rocket scientists. Meanwhile Rindlisbacher and several other investigators subpoena Reggie’s phone records and discover that he may have indeed been texting at the time of the accident. Reggie hires a lawyer, while Terryl encourages the county to bring charges against Reggie. Dealing with grief and guilt, Reggie withdraws emotionally. Meanwhile Leila and Jackie deal with their husbands’ deaths in their own ways.

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When Reggie is training for his second attempt to complete a Mormon mission, he is called back to face charges of negligent homicide. A vicious legal battle ensues, between Reggie, his family, and their lawyer, Jon Bunderson , on one side, and county prosecutor Don Linton , the O’Dells, Furfaros, and Terryl on the other. Finally, hearing testimony from a researcher, Reggie admits to himself that he was texting during the accident and was thus responsible for the deaths of the two men. He tells his story in a state committee hearing, and a law outlawing texting and driving passes. Reggie agrees to a plea deal: He will serve 30 days of jail time and be required to tell his story to educate the public. Reggie devotes himself to his campaign, speaking to high school students and professional athletes, telling his story, and warning them against making the same mistake he did. His efforts change the minds of many people involved in the case about how remorseful he is.

The book’s other chapters present the science of attention and the ways in which technology preys upon our bottom-up and top-down attention systems. Researchers warn that the rapid advancement of technology and the addicting nature of communications could lead to undesirable consequences, such as an increase in traffic accident fatalities.

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Homicide detective Flann McIlroy is convinced that someone is using the lure of the internet and the promise of love to launch a killing spree against the women of New York City. To catch the killer, he calls up Detective Ellie Hatcher. She must enter a high-tech world where no one is who they appear to be. When the FirstDate killer begins to mimic the monster who destroyed her father, Ellie knows the game has become personal for him.

Good introduction to author and character

• By bonnie on 09-01-09

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Required Reading

This book, written by Matt Richtel, is based on his own groundbreaking articles about driving and cell phone use, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. He effectively combines a true story of tragedy and its costs to everyone involved with technical neuroscience information without getting heavy handed with either. Excellent audiobook and narration. Should be required reading in every high school across the country and perhaps every college.

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8 people found this helpful

Easiest non-fiction read ever!

A well-woven narrative of the many people and stories that became intertwined on the day of Reggie Shaw's fateful accident. Not to be missed.

6 people found this helpful

• PAMELA P NELSON

A must read for anyone who drives a car!

Fascinating story backed up with compelling evidence. Powerful enough to convince me to make a change. My phone will be turned off in the car.

5 people found this helpful

• Nathan E. Reynolds

This book is a true story of tragedy that will ultimately be a huge positive in the life of all who take the time to read it! It changed my own foolish belief that I could safely handle a phone while driving. Therefore, it may have saved my life too. Not only is this book useful to our everyday lives; it is also a riveting read that you don't want to put down!

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• Lucy Wiswall

I never cried so much from a book. It is so much more than a story about texting and driving. It's a life changer.

• Overall 4 out of 5 stars
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informative

Like the best journalism in the NY Times, this book is a thoughtful examination of the brain science on distraction as well as the personal side of the dangers created by technological distractions while driving.

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• Story 4 out of 5 stars

Worth Listening To!

What a story! I enjoyed most of the book, however, I feel like parts of it dragged on, especially when the author focused on the abuse in one family. I feel like it could have had better editing. That being said, it is a moving and worthwhile listen. It sure makes one cognizant of the dangers of texting and driving!

• Marsha L. Wolfe

Technology and its impact

A very important book that all parents should read and require their teenagers to read.

• Overall 3 out of 5 stars
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Important but excruciating

I’m very interested in focus and engagement, so this book interested me, but some of the backstory was just excruciating to get through. I almost deleted this a few times, but the last part (minus the research notes) was worth it. And the compassion was great to hear in the unforgiving current environment.

• Elizabeth L.

Eye opening dive into the danger of multitasking

Great piece and very informative. Illustrated by a terrible car crash involving a teenager texting while driving the book is a must read for everyone who wants to understand the danger of multitasking

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An ordinary Utah college student named Reggie Shaw fatally strikes two rocket scientists while texting and driving. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Matt Richtel follows Reggie from the moment of the tragedy, through the police investigation, the state's groundbreaking prosecution, and ultimately, Reggie's wrenching admission of responsibility. Richtel parallels Reggie's journey with leading-edge scientific findings regarding human attention and the impact of technology on our brains. Remarkably, today Reggie is a leading advocate who has helped spark a national effort targeting distracted driving, and the arc of his story p...

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