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Author by: Michael Crichton Language: en Publisher by: Vintage Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 99 Total Download: 331 File Size: 51,6 Mb Description: 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 by: Michael Crichton Language: en Publisher by: Vintage Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 45 Total Download: 165 File Size: 49,8 Mb Description: From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Congo comes a psychological thriller about a group of scientists who investigate a spaceship discovered on the ocean floor.

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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface, a huge vessel is unearthed. Rushed to the scene is a team of American scientists who descend together into the depths to investigate the astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship, but apparently it is undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old, containing a terrifying and destructive force that must be controlled at all costs.

Author by: Michael Crichton Language: en Publisher by: Ballantine Books Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 80 Total Download: 786 File Size: 42,5 Mb Description: From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this extraordinary thriller about airline safety, business intrigue, and a deadly cover-up. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The pacing is fast, the suspense nonstop.”—People 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. “A one-sitting read that will cause a lifetime of white-knuckled nightmares.”—The Philaelphia Inquirer “The ultimate thriller...

[Crichton’s] stories are always page-turners of the highest order.... [Airframe] moves like a firehouse dog chasing a red truck.”—The Denver Post “Dramatically vivid.”—The New York Times. Author by: Michael Crichton Language: en Publisher by: Harper Collins Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 79 Total Download: 250 File Size: 48,5 Mb Description: We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and test our spouses for genetic maladies.

We live in a time when one-fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes. We live in a new world where nothing is what it seems. The future is closer than you think. The enhanced e-book for Next, the first ever enhanced e-book from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Michael Crichton, includes five exclusive videos with leading experts on genetics and law. These videos examine Crichton’s opinions on the implications of policy issues like applying patents to genes, giving people control over what is done with their tissue and passing laws that give genetic information to the public. Experts include Lori Andrews, Kathy Giusti, Harry Ostrer, MD., and Stuart Newman, MD. Also included is a feature called “Who Owns Your Body”, an interactive map of the human body, with information about genes that are owned by different companies, as well as videos of Michael Crichton discussing his insights and one on the important legacy he has left us.

Author by: Michael Crichton Language: en Publisher by: Ballantine Books Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 64 Total Download: 889 File Size: 42,6 Mb Description: From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Wonderful...

Powerful.”—The Washington Post Book World 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 taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.

“Frighteningly real... It’ll keep you riveted.”—The Detroit News “Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Full of suspense.”—The New York Times Book Review.

Author by: Elizabeth Ann Trembley Language: en Publisher by: Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 77 Total Download: 131 File Size: 41,8 Mb Description: Use by the reader, each chapter is subdivided into section on general critical analysis, plot, theme, character development, and alternative perspectives on the novel that offer additional insight. The author shows how each of Crichton's novels incorporates a theme or debate from current culture and how his visions of genetically engineered dinosaurs, killer viruses from outer space, and deadly relations in international business have become part of American culture. Author by: Michael Crichton Language: en Publisher by: Open Road Media Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 65 Total Download: 668 File Size: 51,6 Mb Description: The death of a doctor’s daughter may be malpractice—or murder—in this novel by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author: “I loved it” (Stephen King). In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. Randall’s teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode.

Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood? The natural suspect is Arthur Lee, a brilliant surgeon and known abortionist, who has been carrying out the illegal procedure with the help of pathologist John Berry. After Karen dies, Lee is thrown in jail on a murder charge, and only Berry can prove his friend wasn’t the one who wielded the scalpel. Behind this gruesome death, Berry will uncover a secret that would shock even the most hardened pathologist.

An Edgar Award–winning novel by the author of such blockbusters as The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park—and creator of the long-running NBC drama ER—A Case of Need is a “superb” medical-thriller mystery (Los Angeles Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Michael Crichton including rare images from the author’s estate. Author by: Michael Crichton Language: en Publisher by: Vintage Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 93 Total Download: 110 File Size: 42,6 Mb Description: From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror. It is 922 A.D.

The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea. Author by: Michael Crichton Language: en Publisher by: Vintage Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 9 Total Download: 187 File Size: 55,8 Mb Description: From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life.

Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, a probe satellite falls to the earth and lands in a desolate region of northeastern Arizona. Nearby, in the town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. What could cause such shock and fear? The terror has begun, and there is no telling where it will end.

Chapter 1 THE SURFACE WEST OF TONGA For a long time the horizon had been a monotonous flat blue line separating the Pacific Ocean from the sky. The Navy helicopter raced forward, flying low, near the waves. Despite the noise and the thumping vibration of the blades, Norman Johnson fell asleep. He was tired; he had been traveling on various military aircraft for more than fourteen hours. It was not the kind of thing a fifty-three-year-old professor of psychology was used to.

He had no idea how long he slept. When he awoke, he saw that the horizon was still flat; there were white semicircles of coral atolls ahead. He said over the intercom, 'What's this?' 'Islands of Ninihina and Tafahi,' the pilot said. 'Technically part of Tonga, but they're uninhabited.

Norman looked at the islands as they flashed by: a curve of white sand, a few palm trees, then gone. The flat ocean again. 'Where'd they bring you in from?' The pilot asked. 'San Diego,' Norman said.

Smoke Brush Photoshop Cs6 Download. 'I left yesterday.' 'So you came Honolulu-Guam-Pago-here?'

'That's right.' 'Long trip,' the pilot said. 'What kind of work you do, sir?' 'I'm a psychologist,' Norman said. 'A shrink, huh?' The pilot grinned. They've called in just about everything else.'

'How do you mean?' 'We've been ferrying people out of Guam for the last two days. Physicists, biologists, mathematicians, you name it. Everybody being flown to the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Ocean.' 'What's going on?' The pilot glanced at him, eyes unreadable behind dark aviator sunglasses. 'They're not telling us anything, sir.

What about you? What'd they tell you?' 'They told me,' Norman said, 'that there was an airplane crash.'

'Uh-huh,' the pilot said. 'You get called on crashes?' 'I have been, yes.' For a decade, Norman Johnson had been on the list of FAA crash-site teams, experts called on short notice to investigate civilian air disasters.

The first time had been at the United Airlines crash in San Diego in 1976; then he had been called to Chicago in '78, and Dallas in '82. Each time the pattern was the same - the hurried telephone call, frantic packing, the absence for a week or more. This time his wife, Ellen, had been annoyed because he was called away on July 1, which meant he would miss their July 4 beach barbecue. Then, too, Tim was coming back from his sophomore year at Chicago, on his way to a summer job in the Cascades. And Amy, now sixteen, was just back from Andover, and Amy and Ellen didn't get along very well if Norman wasn't there to mediate.

The Volvo was making noises again. And it was possible Norman might miss his mother's birthday the following week. 'What crash is it?'

Ellen had said. 'I haven't heard about any crash.' She turned on the radio while he packed. There was no news on the radio of an airline crash. When the car pulled up in front of his house, Norman had been surprised to see it was a Navy pool sedan, with a uniformed Navy driver.

'They never sent a Navy car the other times,' Ellen said, following him down the stairs to the front door. 'Is this a military crash?' 'I don't know,' he said. Cm2 Crack. 'When will you be back?'

He kissed her. 'I'll call you,' he said. But he hadn't called. Everyone had been polite and pleasant, but they had kept him away from telephones. First at Hickam Field in Honolulu, then at the Naval Air Station in Guam, where he had arrived at two in the morning, and had spent half an hour in a room that smelled of aviation gasoline, staring dumbly at an issue of the American Journal of Psychology which he had brought with him, before flying on. He arrived at Pago Pago just as dawn was breaking. Norman was hurried onto the big Sea Knight helicopter, which immediately lifted off the cold tarmac and headed west, over palm trees and rusty corrugated rooftops, into the Pacific.

He had been on this helicopter for two hours, sleeping part of the time. Ellen, and Tim and Amy and his mother's birthday, now seemed very far away.

'Where exactly are we?' 'Between Samoa and Fiji in the South Pacific,' the pilot said. 'Can you show me on the chart?' 'I'm not supposed to do that, sir. Anyway, it wouldn't show much. Right now you're two hundred miles from anywhere, sir.' Norman stared at the flat horizon, still blue and featureless.

I can believe it, he thought. 'Don't you get bored looking at that?' 'To tell you the truth, no, sir,' the pilot said. 'I'm real happy to see it flat like this.

At least we've got good weather. And it won't hold. There's a cyclone forming up in the Admiralties, should swing down this way in a few days.' 'What happens then?'

'Everybody clears the hell out. Weather can be tough in this part of the world, sir. I'm from Florida and I saw some hurricanes when I was a kid, but you've never seen anything like a Pacific cyclone, sir.' Norman nodded. 'How much longer until we get there?' 'Any minute now, sir.'

After two hours of monotony, the cluster of ships appeared unusually interesting. There were more than a dozen vessels of various kinds, formed roughly into concentric circles. On the outer perimeter, he counted eight gray Navy destroyers.

Closer to the center were large ships that had wide-spaced double hulls and looked like floating dry-docks; then nondescript boxy ships with flat helicopter decks; and in the center, amid all the gray, two white ships, each with a flat pad and a bull's-eye.