"Del autor de Parque Jurásico, llega este extraordinario thriller sobre la seguridad aérea, la intriga empresarial y un mortal encubrimiento...
Un N-22 de la compañía Transpacific Airlines, un moderno avión fabricado por la empresa Aeronáutica Norton, sufre un extraño accidente en pleno vuelo que cuesta la vida a tres personas y heridas graves a otras muchas. No obstante, el aparato logra tomar tierra en Los Ángeles y, a partir de ahí, se inicia una precipitada investigación para esclarecer las causas del misterioso suceso. ¿Por qué ha ocurrido? ¿Fue un fallo mecánico o humano? ¿Quién es, en todo caso, el responsable?
Hay en juego muchos intereses: entre Aeronáutica Norton y China está pendiente la firma de un contrato por la compra de cincuenta N-22, los empleados de la empresa ven peligrar sus puestos de trabajo si la investigación revela un defecto de fabricación, y la prensa no duda en tergiversar los hechos si así consigue más ventas. Incluso el piloto, el más avezado de Transpacific, parece ocultar algo.
Combinando un trepidante ritmo argumental y un sólido conocimiento de la más avanzada tecnología aeronáutica, Michael Crichton nos ofrece una novela a la altura de sus éxitos anteriores."
"Michael Crichton retoma en esta continuación de Parque Jurásico los aspectos más inquietantes de la trama original.
La pesadilla empieza en la isla de Costa Rica, donde se encuentran varios cadáveres de dinosaurios. El paleontólogo Richard Levine organiza una expedición y, gracias a sus peculiares ayudantes -dos niños superdotados-, consigue que Ian Malcolm, uno de los pocos hombres que conoce lo que realmente ocurrió en aquella isla remota, colabore en la arriesgada empresa.
Como es sabido, esa isla fue el verdadero «laboratorio» del parque, donde los dinosaurios eran «fabricados» y criados sin ningún criterio científico por los responsables de una empresa cegada por los intereses económicos. Ahora, las consecuencias de tales manipulaciones son pavorosas: los dinosaurios se han vuelto violentos e impredecibles y amenazan con extender su salvaje hegemonía a todo el planeta."
"En esta espectacular novela los dinosaurios vuelven a conquistar la Tierra...
En una isla remota, un grupo de hombres y mujeres emprende una carrera contra el tiempo para evitar un desastre mundial provocado por la desmedida ambición de comercializar la ingeniería genética. Pero todos los esfuerzos resultarán vanos cuando el inescrupuloso proyecto quede fuera de control y el mundo a merced de unas bestias monstruosas...
Parque Jurásico, la novela más célebre de Michael Crichton y una de las más leídas en los últimos años, fue adaptada al cine con enorme éxito por Steven Spielberg.
La crítica ha dicho:
«Una joya de la fantasía científica.»
El País"
"Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name – and spawned a new genre, the technothriller – the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.
THE EVOLUTION IS COMING
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe – designated the Andromeda Strain – came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. A team of top scientists worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. And the world thought it was safe.…
Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. And now, a Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter, bearing the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle.
With this shocking discovery, a diverse team of experts hailing from all over the world is dispatched to investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat. But the microbe is growing – evolving. And if the team can’t reach the quarantine zone, enter the anomaly, and figure out how to stop it, this new Andromeda Evolution will annihilate all life as we know it.
‘A meticulously crafted adventure story, packed with action, mystery, wonder, and just enough hard science to scare the hell out of you. So good!’ Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One
‘Wilson invokes the best of [Crichton’s classic novel], and updates everything with terrific flair’
Mail Online
‘Does a good job of mixing hard science and thrills’
The i
‘Satisfyingly amplifies the original’
Financial Times
Would make Crichton proud”
Washington Post
‘Tautly told, often exciting and tense’
SFX magazine"
"From Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, comes a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last!
If you thought Jurassic Park was an adventure, you should try the Wild West!
1876. In the lawless territories of the Wild West, two teams of explorers are pitted against one another. Their quarry? Dinosaur bones. But in a land filled with hostile Indian tribes and towns where pistol fights are a daily occurrence, every exploit puts their lives in danger…
William Johnson, a student with more privilege than sense, finds himself plunged into this deadly environment after making a brash wager. Alongside Edwin Drinker Cope, the famed adventurer, he stumbles upon a momentous discovery – dragon teeth of a fantastic size!
But to keep this extraordinary treasure safe, William must first confront some of the West’s most dangerous and notorious characters…"
"“Ingenious and beguiling.”
—Time
“Crichton keeps us guessing at every turn in his best work since The Andromeda Strain.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Sphere may be Crichton’s best novel, but even if it ranked only second or third, it would be a must for suspense fans.”
—Miami Herald
A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills. The gripping story of a group of American scientists sent to the ocean floor to investigate an alien ship, only to confront a terrifying discovery that defies imagination, Sphere is Crichton prime—truly masterful fiction from the ingenious mind that brought us Prey, State of Fear, and Jurassic Park.
Sphere was made into a film directed by Barry Levinson, which starred Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson."
"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.…Eaters of the Dead was adapted to the screen as The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas."
"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.…Michael Crichton wrote and directed the screen adaptation of The Great Train Robbery, starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland."
"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.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.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.…Congo was made into a film directed by Frank Marshall."
"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 blacks out 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...."
"A riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interestsOn the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles—the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate—a grand opening celebration is in full swing.On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the corpse of a beautiful young woman is discovered.The investigation immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue, a no-holds-barred conflict in which control of a vital American technology is the fiercely coveted prize—and in which the Japanese saying “business is war” takes on a terrifying reality.Rising Sun was made into a film, starring Sean Connery.“As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be.” —The New York Times Book Review“A grand maze of plot twists… Crichton’s gift for spinning a timely yarn is going to be enough, once again, to serve a current tenant of the bestseller list with an eviction notice.” —New York Daily News"
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