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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Abridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Harper
Published: May 2009
Genre: Fiction - Technological
Retail Price: $9.99
Pages: 816
The 'Crichton effect' -- this term has come to signify the distinctive blend of fear, fantasy, and authentic cutting-edge science driving the blockbuster novels of Michael Crichton. Hailed as 'the father of the techno-thriller', Crichton boasts an impressive history of global bestsellers -- from The Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park to Prey -- that explore the frightening possibilities of breakthrough research led astray by abuse and corruption. Drawing on his past as a Harvard Medical School student and his ongoing study of the world of technology, Crichton's gripping fiction is grounded in scientific fact culled from the latest academic journals.