rom the creator ofJurassic Park andER

Pierce has a large inheritance coming, but a series of thwarted attempts on his buddy's life makes Charles begin to smell a rat. Who's really trying to kill whom? And why is Charles starting to believe that he's the real target?

With a new introduction by Sherri Crichton

Michael Crichton (1942- 008) is one of the most prolific bestselling authors of all time with over 200 million copies sold worldwide, in forty languages, including&nbs ;Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sphere, Next, Prey, Disclosur , Eaters of the Dead, and Congo. His books have been adapted into fifteen films, most notably Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg which launched one of the highest-grossing entertainment franchises of all time. A remarkable and versatile talent, Crichton wrote and directed several films including Westworld, nbsp;The Great Train Robbery (based on his novel), and Coma a d created the television series ER. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. After writing novels under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffery Hudson while he was still a medical student, his first bestseller as Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain, was adapted into a classic film.