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Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton’s novels include The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, and The Lost World, and he was as well the creator of the television series ER. Crichton died in 2008.

. Michael Crichton

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Airframe
Written by Michael Crichton
Ballantine Books | Paperback | September 1997
$7.99/9.99(Canada) | 978-0-345-40287-5 (0-345-40287-1)

Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .

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... Read more






Airframe
Written by Michael Crichton
Knopf | Hardcover | November 1996
$26.00/35.00(Canada) | 978-0-679-44648-4 (0-679-44648-6)

Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .

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... Read more






Airframe
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Blair Brown
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$11.95/14.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-41857-0 (0-375-41857-1)

See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Michael Crichton in Large Print

* About Large Print
All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface


Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .

At a moment... Read more






Airframe
Written by Michael Crichton
Knopf | eBook |
$7.99/9.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41221-9 (0-375-41221-2)

See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Michael Crichton in Large Print

* About Large Print
All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface


Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .

At a moment... Read more






Airframe
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Frances Cassidy
Random House Audio | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$22.50/25.50(Canada) | 978-1-4159-1909-5 (1-4159-1909-7)

Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .

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... Read more






The Andromeda Strain
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Chris Noth
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$8.50/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41859-4 (0-375-41859-8)

"Relentlessly suspenseful...A hair-raising experience."
THE PITTSBURGH PRESS
The United States government stands warned that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. When a probe satellite falls to the earth two years later, and lands in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona, the bodies that... Read more






Congo
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Judith Ivey
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$8.50/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41860-0 (0-375-41860-1)

The legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj have seen an eight-person field exhibition die. After startling discoveries, a new expedition is sent back into the Congo--its mission, to descend into the secret world where the only way back out may be through the grisliest death....


From the Paperback edition. Read more






The Michael Crichton Collection: Airframe, The Lost World, and Timeline
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Blair Brown, Anthony Heald and Stephen Lang
Random House Audio | Abridged Compact Disc | August 2006
$29.95/39.95(Canada) | 978-0-7393-4033-2 (0-7393-4033-6)

Airframe
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin is virtually destroyed but the pilot manages to land the plane… Airframe combines a realistic situation with heart-pounding suspense to keep the listener captivated until the very last word.

The Lost World
It is now six years since the secret disaster at... Read more






Disclosure
Written by Michael Crichton
Ballantine Books | Paperback | August 1994
$7.99/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-345-39105-6 (0-345-39105-5)

"Expertly crafted, ingenious and absorbing." The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." As he did in "Rising Sun," Crichton focuses on a topic as close as today's newspaper headlines: sexual harassment.
Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his new boss turns... Read more






Disclosure
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by John Lithgow
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$9.99/12.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41861-7 (0-375-41861-X)

A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton's new novel, the first since Rising Sun.

At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom... Read more






Disclosure
Written by Michael Crichton
Knopf | eBook |
$7.99/9.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41219-6 (0-375-41219-0)

A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton's new novel, the first since Rising Sun.

At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom... Read more






Eaters of the Dead
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Victor Garber, Commentaries by Michael Crichton, Introduction by Michael Crichton
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$8.95/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41862-4 (0-375-41862-8)

It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea...


From... Read more






The Great Train Robbery
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Michael Cumpsty
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$8.95/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41863-1 (0-375-41863-6)

"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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... Read more






Jurassic Park
Written by Michael Crichton
Ballantine Books | Paperback | November 1991
$7.99/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-345-37077-8 (0-345-37077-5)

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy....
"Wonderful...Powerful."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Read more






Jurassic Park
Written by Michael Crichton
Knopf | Hardcover | November 1990
$32.50/37.95(Canada) | 978-0-394-58816-2 (0-394-58816-9)

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy....
"Wonderful...Powerful."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD


From the Paperback edition. Read more






Jurassic Park
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by John Heard
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$9.99/12.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41864-8 (0-375-41864-4)

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy....
"Wonderful...Powerful."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD


From the Paperback edition. Read more






The Lost World
Written by Michael Crichton
Ballantine Books | Paperback | September 1996
$7.99/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-345-40288-2 (0-345-40288-X)

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the 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... Read more






The Lost World
Written by Michael Crichton
Knopf | Hardcover | September 1995
$29.95/44.95(Canada) | 978-0-679-41946-4 (0-679-41946-2)

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the 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... Read more






The Lost World
Written by Michael Crichton
Knopf | eBook |
$7.99/9.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41220-2 (0-375-41220-4)

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the 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... Read more






The Lost World
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Scott Brick
Random House Audio | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$22.50/30.00(Canada) | 978-1-4159-3393-0 (1-4159-3393-6)

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the 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... Read more






The Lost World
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Scott Brick
Random House Audio | Unabridged Compact Disc | January 2008
$34.95/39.95(Canada) | 978-0-7393-5930-3 (0-7393-5930-4)

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the 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... Read more






The Lost World
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Anthony Heald
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$11.95/14.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-41870-9 (0-375-41870-9)

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the 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... Read more






Michael Crichton Value Collection
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Anthony Heald, Chris Noth and John Heard
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$17.95/22.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-41728-3 (0-375-41728-1)

Includes: Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, and The Lost World

The collection is sure to please avid Crichton fans and new listeners alike. 

Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain sets forth the story of Project Wildfire - the crash mobilization of the nations highest scientific and medical resources when an unmanned research satellite returns to earth... Read more






Rising Sun
Written by Michael Crichton
Ballantine Books | Paperback | November 1992
$7.99/10.99(Canada) | 978-0-345-38037-1 (0-345-38037-1)

During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners. Read more






Rising Sun
Written by Michael Crichton, Read by Keith Szarabajka
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$9.99/12.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-41865-5 (0-375-41865-2)

During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners.


From the Paperback... Read more





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