DrAmyR's Blog Posts Tagged 'michael' (2)

Michael Crichton died in 2008.  He was the undisputed master of tense, imaginative, un-put-downable books loaded with cutting-edge science spun just far enough into fiction to fascinate the reader without triggering complete disbelief.



Other authors have used Crichton's techniques and themes, but debut author Paul McEuen, in his new book Spiral, is the first to produce a novel worthy of direct comparison with Crichton's best.







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A domestic terrorist organization has released a deadly, highly contagious virus into the Capitol during the President’s State of the Union address. The president, Dr. Jim Allaire, knows the virus well-–his administration was developing it before he abandoned the project. Allaire is… Continue