A pilot calls into the control tower to reqest an emergency landing. Following a mystery incident, the planes cabin is virtually destroyed, ninety-four passengers are injured and three are dead. Investigating this fatal accident for the airline, Casey Singleton must find out the truth before the multi-million dollar business goes bust in the face of […]
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind??s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them??for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton […]
THEYRE BACK! The corpses of large reptiles are being found on the Costa Rica coastline. And although the nightmare of John Hammonds Jurassic Park Park ended five years ago, rumours that dinosaurs still exist abound. Mathematician Ian Malcolm, who forsaw the disaster that destroyed the Park, realises that dinosaurs must still be alive on another […]
“A page-turner…Chichtons writing is cinematic, with powerful visual images and nonstop action. This book should come with hot buttered popcorn.” NEWSWEEK A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and […]
In A. D. 922 Ibn Fadlan, the representative of the ruler of Bagdad, City of Peace, crosses the Caspian sea and journeys up the valley of the Volga on a mission to the king of Saqaliba. Before he arrives, he meets with Buliwyf, a powerful Viking chieftain who is summoned by his besieged relatives to […]
Michael Crichton needs no introduction in the genre of science fiction thrillers. Jurassic Park took the world by storm in the 90s and Crichton became the master of mixing the possibilities of modern research with page-turning suspense. Next deals with genetic engineering on a more human level. In Next, Crichton brings up some provocative dilemmas […]
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand […]
In Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990s Jurassic Park such a blockbuster success. High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming computers to solve problems by mimicking the […]
ER has become the most succesful television series in the world since CHARLIES ANGELS. Michael Crichton created the series from his own experiences as a medical doctor in the emergency rooms, operating rooms and wards of Massachusetts General Hospital. FIVE PATIENTS is Michael Crichtons true account of the real life dramas so vividly portrayed in […]
[close] In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a […]