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Three men are found dead in the locked second-floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself. An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.

An irresistible tale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World from master storyteller Michael Crichton -- now in paperback Jamaica, in 1665 a lone outpost of British power amid Spanish waters in the sunbaked Caribbean. Its capital, Port Royal, a cuthroat town of taverns, grog shops and bawdy houses -- the last place imaginable from which to launch an unthinkable attack on a nearby Spanish stronghold. Yet that is exactly what renowned privateer Captain Charles Hunter plans to do, with the connivance of Charles II's ruling governor, Sir James Almont. The target is Matanceros, guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, and considered impregnable with its gun emplacements and sheer cliffs. Hunter's crew of buccaneers must battle not only the Spanish fleet but other deadly perils -- raging hurricanes, cannibal tribes, even sea monsters. But if his ragtag crew succeeds, they will make not only history ! but a fortune in gold.

Una novela explosiva sobre el imperialismo económico japonés. En la mejor tradición de los buenos thrillers, la historia arranca con el hallazgo de un cadáver, en esta ocasión el de una call-girl en el piso 45 de la torre Nakamoto, un rascacielos de Los Angeles que alberga el cuartel general desde donde el coloso oriental lanza su invasion economica sobre Estados Unidos... Sol naciente es una de las novelas mas trepidantes de Michael Crichton, celebre autor de Parque Jurasico, y su adaptacion cinematografica, protagonizada por Sean Connery, constituyo todo un acontecimiento

Un N-22 de 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 cincuenta y seis. No obstante, el aparato logra tomar tierra en Los Angeles, y a partir de ahi se inicia una precipitada investigacion para esclarecer las causas del misterioso suceso. ¿Por que ha ocurrido? ¿Es un fallo mecanico o humano? ¿Quien es, en todo caso, el responsable? Hay en juego muchos intereses: esta pendiente la firma entre la Norton y China de un contrato por la compra de cincuenta N-22; los empleados de la empresa ven peligrar sus puestos si la investigacion revela un defecto de fabricacion; y la prensa no dua en tergiversar los hechos si asi consigue mas ventas. Incluso el piloto, el mas avezado de Transpacific, parece ocultar algo.

This one was something of a guilty pleasure. Michael Crichtons books arent particularly interesting stylistically, but for a plot-only romp with a half-baked scientific understanding, they are unmatched. This was not one of his better books, though it was much more enjoyable than Disclosure, whose entire plot I had predicted by the time I was 1/3 of the way through it.