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Peter Ross is an American radiologist in Spain for a conference when he's strong-armed into performing an autopsy on a dead gangster. Something is planted inside the corpse's chest cavity and three gangs are vying for it. Can Pete escape the gangs before he becomes another victim? I have mixed feelin Leggi tutto

I didn't agonize over whether I was expressing myself; I didn't worry about art; I was writing under a pseudonym, at very high speed. And the usual concerns about the quality or originality of one's output were irrelevant since my explicit goal was to be entirely unoriginal - to write something so p Leggi tutto

Michael Crichton, posing as John Lange, novelizes a nonexistent Nicholas Cage movie.

Glad I stumbled onto this. . . The older books Michael Crichton has written (Zero Cool - 1969) are great! Totally different from what I am used to from Mr. Crichton and his older stuff is fun! Kind of cool comparing and contrasting his old stuff with the more recent. Looking forward to delving into

A Curio book - John Lange being a pen named used by Michael Crichton in the 60's. Like the other half dozen I've already read it is a good time passer, but this one had two glaring ...inconsistencies? Toward the end of the novel the author tries to pull off a standard 'you think its one person but it Leggi tutto

I consider these kinds of crime thrillers to be Popcorn Books. There not meant to be anything other than a mindless, quick and entertaining read. This one started off strong, with a radiologist being approached by a stranger warning him to not perform an autopsy, which is not something a radiologist Leggi tutto

*1.5 Stars* It can be difficult on a weekend where you've been reading a lot and you find the "to read" pile of books you currently possess to be not a pile at all, but just ones that have been picked up and been anchoring the pile for a long time! This had been the foundation of such a pile for me, Leggi tutto

Nonostante le tre stelle, questo è un bel giallo. Però, la sensazione di averlo già letto non mi ha mai abbandonato quasi fino alla scena finale nell’Alhambra. E proprio verso la fine ho capito che questo romanzo di Crichton è molto simile a Topkapi di Eric Ambler, altro bel giallo. Come ha confessa Leggi tutto

COUNTDOWN: Mid-20th Century North American Crime BOOK 230 (of 250) This is the fifth of the Crichon/Lange Hard Case books I've read. (According to the back cover blurb, there are 8 of these.) Yes, 'Zero Cool' (1969) is better than 'Odds On' (1966) and 'Easy Go' (1968) so it's interesting to note the a Leggi tutto

Loved, loved, loved this absurd, trashy, and fun story. It's like the Road House of books. So bad that it's totally fucking awesome. This one rates high on my guilty pleasure list. Seriously, you can really see a lot of Crichton's brilliance in this book. If you hate this book, you hate fun.