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    Audiobook4 hours

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    Written by Michael Crichton and John Lange

    Narrated by Christopher Lane

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction-and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is.

    When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together-but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people…including the President of the United States?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 30, 2015
    ISBN9781501216572
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    Author

    Michael Crichton

    Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was the author of the bestselling novels The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear, Next and Dragon Teeth, among many others. His books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, have been translated into forty languages, and have provided the basis for fifteen feature films. He wrote and directed Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, Runaway, Looker, Coma and created the hit television series ER. Crichton remains the only writer to have a number one book, movie, and TV show in the same year. Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as ten other books. He recently wrote the Earth 2: Society comic book series for DC Comics. Wilson earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He has published over a dozen scientific papers and holds four patents. Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon.

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    • 3/5
      John Lange was one of the early pen names of Michael Crichton, best known for The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park. While enrolled at Harvard Medical School, Crichton began publishing a number of novels. This is one of a number of Crichton's early novels that have recently been re-released by Hard Case Crime. The others are Scratch One, Zero Cool, Easy Go, The Venom Business, Odds On, Grave Descend, and Dealing. I have read a number of these already and, while not perfect, they are fun, light, fast reading that I have found worthwhile. I haven't read any of Crichton's more famous works, but I will note that these early novels compare favorably to many of the bookstand pulp/adventure/crime novels that could be found in the late sixties and early seventies and these books should be read in that context.

      The title of Binary refers to the fact that the evil genius in the book (Wright) has stolen two one-ton tanks of chemicals that, when combined, produce a devastating nerve gas. The plot involves Wright arranging the theft of the nerve gas from the US Army and his counterpart in the US Intelligence field (Graves) tracking him down to San Diego, where the Republican Convention is underway and the President is about to speak. The book is filled with plotting and counter-manuevers between these two geniuses, Wright and Graves, and how Graves uncovers the plot and deals with the fact that within an hour a million people including the President could perish from nerve gas. It is fast-reading and compelling plot-wise, but it is all too obviously an early work by Crichton and the characters are a bit on the cardboard side. Often, it is difficult to really distinguish one character from another. The story in places feels stiff. All in all, however, if one keeps in mind, that it is an early work by Crichton, it is not bad reading.
    • 4/5
      This is just pure pulp writing in the typical Michael Crichton style. Not pretty but fun.It's about a theft of military material, how it relates to an assassination and the attempt made to stop it. It's not terribly original now but probably because Crichton and his imitators have done it better since it's original publication in '72
    • 5/5
      Great fast moving lean thriller. Excellent audio performance. I look forward to reading more by Lange/Crichton.
    • 3/5
      Not the best of MC. But a quick fast easy read for an airplane or train trip.
    • 1/5
      Terribly weak characters bumbling along. Not representative of later novels . Solution was awful, could have solved the situation much earlier . Flawed and not worth listening to. I forced myself to finish amazed at the corny self evaluation by our hero. Jokes on me!
    • 4/5
      This book just reminds me what a loss it was when Crichton passed away. The story is a bit dated but it shows the distinctive Crichton style of blending current events, technology and plausible scenarios into a engaging narrative.

      I do not know what the naked woman on the cover has to do with the story
    • 5/5
      Very interesting and well thought story. Liked the unexpected ending.
    • 4/5
      Interesting framing and setting, a bit skeptical about the dénouement though.