Books by Best Selling and Renowned Author Michael Crichton

Title: The Great Train Robbery

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive....

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780804171281
Pages: 288

Title: Pirate Latitudes

<blockquote> <p>From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal.</p> </blockquote> <p>The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses.</p> <p>In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease—or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it.</p> <p>Word in port is that the galleon <i>El Trinidad</i>, fresh from New Spain, is awaiting repairs in a nearby harbor. Heavily fortified, the impregnable harbor is guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself. With backing from a powerful ally, Hunter assembles a crew of ruffians to infiltrate the enemy outpost and commandeer <i>El Trinidad</i>, along with its fortune in Spanish gold. The raid is as perilous as the bloodiest tales of island legend, and Hunter will lose more than one man before he even sets foot on foreign shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry stand between him and the treasure. . . .</p> <p><i>Pirate Latitudes</i> is Michael Crichton at his best: a rollicking adventure tale pulsing with relentless action, crackling atmosphere, and heart-pounding suspense.</p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780061929380
Pages: 416

Title: Travels (Vintage Departures)

From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro. Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels—an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780804171274
Pages: 400

Title: Next

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780060873165

Title: Airframe

<p><b>From the author of <i>Jurassic Park, Timeline,</i> and <i>Sphere</i> comes this extraordinary thriller about airline safety, business intrigue, and a deadly cover-up.</b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> <b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> <b>“The pacing is fast, the suspense nonstop.”—<i>People</i></b><br> &nbsp;<br> At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner flying from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation in which the greatest casualty may be the truth.<br> &nbsp;<br> <b>“A one-sitting read that will cause a lifetime of white-knuckled nightmares.”—<i>The Philaelphia Inquirer</i></b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> <b>“The ultimate thriller . . . [Crichton’s] stories are always page-turners of the highest order. . . . [<i>Airframe</i>] moves like a firehouse dog chasing a red truck.”—<i>The Denver Post</i></b><br> <b><i>&nbsp;</i></b><br> <b>“Dramatically vivid.”—<i>The New York Times</i></b></p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780345526779
Pages: 448

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Title: Prey

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780061703089

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Title: Micro

Author(s): Crichton, Michael/ Preston,

ISBN 13: 9780060873172

Title: Sphere

<p>In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old.</p> <p>But even more fantastic—and frightening—is what waits inside . . .</p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780061990557
Pages: 544

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Title: State of Fear

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780061782664

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Title: Timeline

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780345468260

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Title: Eaters of the Dead

<p>The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs—the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them—a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .</p> <p>Basing his story on an actual ancient manuscript dating back to 922 A.D., the bestselling author of Rising Sun and Jurassic Park (both made into films) now retells the outrageous adventures of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who accompanies a party of Viking warriors to the barbaric north and witnesses their cold-blooded human sacrifices. </p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780061782633
Pages: 304

Title: Congo

<p>Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.</p> <p>Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies—all motionless except for one moving image—a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.</p> <p>In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to finger paint. But recently her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition—along with Amy—is sent into the Congo, where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .</p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780061782558
Pages: 496

Title: The Lost World

It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since that extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. <p>This extraordinary book pairs two major talents of our time, the painter/sculptor/printmaker Jasper Johns and the bestselling novelist/filmmaker/physician Michael Crichton. Long considered to be the preeminent study of one of America's foremost living artists, this edition is completely revised, expanded, and updated. 417 illustrations, including 103 in full color. </p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780345538994
Pages: 432

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Title: Jurassic Park

<p><b>From the author of <i>Timeline, Sphere,</i> and <i>Congo,</i> this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.</b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> <b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> <b>“Wonderful . . . powerful.”—<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></b><br> &nbsp;<br> 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.<br> &nbsp;<br> Until something goes wrong. . . .<br> &nbsp;<br> In <i>Jurassic Park,</i> Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.<br> &nbsp;<br> <b>“Frighteningly real . . . compelling . . . It’ll keep you riveted.”<i>—The Detroit News</i></b><br> &nbsp;<br> <b>“Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”<i>—Chicago Sun-Times</i></b><br> <b><i>&nbsp;</i></b><br> <b>“Full of suspense.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b></p> <p>One of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true--an astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures that have been extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park, where all the world can visit them--for a price. Until something goes wrong. "Frighteningly real . . . it'll keep you riveted."--Detroit News. </p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780345538987
Pages: 464

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Title: Andromeda Strain

<p>The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.</p> <p>Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing ina desolate area of Arizona.</p> <p>Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.</p> <p>The terror has begun . . .</p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780061703157
Pages: 384

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Title: Zero Cool (Hard Case Crime)

American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim.

Author(s): Michael Crichton;John Lange

ISBN 13: 9781783291212
Pages: 240

Title: Drug of Choice

When Dr. Roger Clark travels to the Caribbean to investigate Eden Island, a resort run by bioengineers, he uncovers frightening secrets about the place and the corporation underwriting it.

Author(s): Michael Crichton John Lange

ISBN 13: 9781783291236
Pages: 221

Title: The Terminal Man

From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation. Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blackouts when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain’s pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda. . .

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780804171298
Pages: 272

Title: The Venom Business

Charles Raynaud, used to handling venomous snakes, takes a job guarding an old friend who is about to come into some money, but when the attempts on his charge's life almost get him killed, Charles wonders if he is the real target.

Author(s): Michael Crichton John Lange

ISBN 13: 9781783291229
Pages: 393

Title: Rising sun

ISBN 13: 9780099233015

Title: A Case of Need

<p><i>A Case of Need</i> is Michael Crichton's award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-when a surgical operation tragically ends in death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath? Or cold-blooded murder?</p> <p>From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park and Rising Sun, this national bestseller combines breathtaking suspense with a penetrating examination of America's medical establishment. When a woman bleeds to death on the operating table, her physician is accused of murder--and another physician searches for the horrible truth. </p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780451210630
Pages: 416

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Title: Scratch One (Hard Case Crime)

To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt...Portugal...Denmark...France. In response, the United States sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down. But when the agent is delayed in transit, lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him. Now, with some of the world's deadliest men after him, will he survive long enough to prove his identity?

Author(s): Michael Crichton;John Lange

ISBN 13: 9781783291199
Pages: 272

Title: Five Patients

"Crichton has an extraordinary capacity to seize upon, then make real and personal, the new and the complex, the intriguing and the frighening."<br> THE NATION<br> In this incisive, detailed survey of five patients, famous thriller author and doctor Michael Crichton explores the dramatic workings of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston's oldest and most prestigious.<br> This readable account covers not only the history of the hospital's place in society, but also the actual minute-to-minute functions of Mass General, where health professionals wage their daily battle against disease and death. Crichton's insightful look at the changes in medicine and surgery caused by technological strides of recent years makes for amazing reading.<br> <p>Michael Crichton takes a look at venerable Massachusetts General, giving firsthand accounts of five true and poignant cases which reveal the near-miraculous proficiency--and sometimes alarming inefficiency--of a major city hospital. A dramatic, behind-the-scenes tale from the author of Sphere. Reissue. </p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780099601111

Title: Disclosure: A Novel

<p><b>From the author of <i>Jurassic Park, Timeline</i>, and <i>Sphere</i> comes an electrifying thriller in which a shocking accusation of sexual harassment triggers a gripping psychological game of cat and mouse and threatens to derail a brilliant career.</b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> <b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> <b>“A fresh and provocative story.”—<i>People</i></b><br> <b>&nbsp;</b><br> An up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom, Tom Sanders is a man whose corporate future is certain. But after a closed-door meeting with his new boss—a woman who is his former lover and has been promoted to the position he expected to have—Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which <i>he</i> is branded the villain.<br> &nbsp;<br> As Sanders scrambles to defend himself, he uncovers an electronic trail into the company’s secrets—and begins to grasp that a cynical and manipulative scheme has been devised to bring him down.<br> &nbsp;<br> <b>“Crichton writes superbly. . . . The excitement rises with each page.”—<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br> <b><i>&nbsp;</i></b><br> <b>“A heart-stop story running on several tracks at once. <i>Disclosure</i> is up to [Crichton’s] usual locomotive speed.”<i>—The Boston Globe</i></b><br> <b><i>&nbsp;</i></b><br> <b>“Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing.”—<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b></p>

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780345539007
Pages: 464

Title: Binary

Two canisters of deadly nerve gas are stolen from the government to be used to kill everyone in San Diego at Republican Convention time.

Author(s): Michael Crichton John Lange

ISBN 13: 9781783291250
Pages: 237

Title: Micro

Im November 2008 starb Michael Crichton im Alter von 66 Jahren. Bis zuletzt hat er an seinem neuen Wissenschaftsthriller 'Micro' geschrieben.

Author(s): Michael Crichton Richard Preston

ISBN 13: 9783453436633
Pages: 544

Title: Electronic life

Author(s): Michael Crichton

ISBN 13: 9780345317391

Title: Twister : The Original Screenplay

Author(s): Michael Crichton, A. Martin

ISBN 13: 9780345409706