Bücher von Michael Crichton

Ein verheerender Vulkanausbruch bedroht Hawaii. Doch der Vulkan birgt ein Geheimnis, das die gesamte Welt vernichten könnte ... Der Nr. 1 New York Times Bestseller! John MacGregor, wagemutiger Wissenschaftler des Hawaiian Volcano Observatory und passionierter Surfer, steht vor der schwersten Aufgabe seiner Karriere. Der Mauna Loa, der größte aktive Vulkan der Erde, wird in nur wenigen Tagen ausbrechen. Doch unterhalb des Vulkans lauert ein von der Army streng gehütetes Geheimnis, das jedes Leben auf dem Planeten zu vernichten droht, sollte die Lava es freisetzen. Zusammen mit der unerschrockenen Vulkanologin Jenny Kimura und einem Team aus Experten kämpft Mac gegen die Naturkatastrophe und darum, alles zu retten, was er liebt: das Inselparadies, dessen Menschen und nicht zuletzt die gesamte Welt ... Michael Crichton, Schöpfer von »Jurassic Park«, »Emergency Room«, »Twister« und »Westworld«, arbeitete jahrelang leidenschaftlich an einem Projekt, bevor er 2008 viel zu früh verstarb. Seine Frau Sherri Crichton wusste, wie besonders dieses Buch war, und verwahrte die Notizen und das Teilmanuskript ihres Mannes, bis sie den richtigen Autor gefunden hatte, der es vollenden konnte: James Patterson, den beliebtesten Erzähler der Welt. Atemberaubend spannend, meisterhaft erzählt und absolut visionär - das Thriller-Ereignis des Jahrzehnts von den weltweit gefeierten Bestsellerautoren Michael Crichton und James Patterson.

Crichtons ultimate adventure.San Francisco ChroniclePirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action.A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure.USA TodayRiveting.Great entertainment.The pages and minutes fly by.Cleveland Plain Dealer#1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton (One of the great storytellers of our age Newsday) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates, lost treasure, sword fights, duplicity, and hair-breadth escapes in the New World.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests. "As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be."-The New York Times Book Review On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles-the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate-a grand opening celebration is in full swing. On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the corpse of a beautiful young woman is discovered. The investigation immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue, a no-holds-barred conflict in which control of a vital American technology is the fiercely coveted prize-and in which the Japanese saying "Business is war" takes on a terrifying reality. "A grand maze of plot twists . . . Crichton's gift for spinning a timely yarn is going to be enough, once again, to serve a current tenant of the bestseller list with an eviction notice."-New York Daily News "The action in Rising Sun unfolds at a breathless pace."-Business Week

In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, in Micro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore.In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead, covered in ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot. In the lush forests of Oahu, trillions of microorganisms are being discovered, feeding a search for priceless drugs. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students are recruited by a microbiology start-up and dispatched to a mysterious lab in Hawaii. There 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 where 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.

1967 stürzte eine unbemannte US-Raumsonde über Arizona ab. An Bord befand sich ein außerirdischer Mikroorganismus, der jeden getötet hat, der damit in Kontakt kam. Ein Team aus den besten Wissenschaftlern schaffte es, die Verbreitung des Organismus, den sie Andromeda getauft hatten, zu verhindern. In der Fairchild Air Force Base wacht seither das Project Eternal Vigilance über die Erde: Es soll beim geringsten Anzeichen eines Andromeda-Ausbruchs losschlagen können. Jetzt, nach Jahrzehnten ohne einen Zwischenfall, steht die Task Force kurz vor dem Aus. Da entdeckt eine Drohne mitten im brasilianischen Dschungel die chemische Signatur Andromedas. Doch der extraterrestrische Organismus hat sich weiterentwickelt - zu einer noch tödlicheren Gefahr für die Menschheit ...

Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future—it's the world right now.Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease?We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one-fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else—and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes....The future is closer than you think.

In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative techno-thriller State of Fear. Only Crichton's unique ability to blend scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to such a heart-stopping conclusion.

Michael Crichtons Prey is a terrifying page-turner that masterfully combines a heartpounding thriller with cutting-edge technology.Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos Corporation has built a state-of-the-art fabrication plant, surrounded by miles and miles of nothing but cactus and coyotes. Eight people are trapped. A self-replicating swarm of predatory molecules is rapidly evolving outside the plant. Massed together, the molecules form an intelligent organism that is anything but benign. More powerful by the hour, it has targeted the eight scientists as prey. They must stop the swarm before it is too lateIn Prey, Michael Crichton combines scientific brilliance with relentless pacing to create an electrifying, chilling techno-thriller

Further lives are at stake and it seems everyone is against her - even her own colleagues - and everyone has something to hide.Airframe is a fast-paced, adrenaline-fuelled thriller from the master of high-concept storytelling.

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease.