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"Great delight to Crichton fans who are still mourning his 2008 passing." Geek Girl Project
About the Author
Long before he wrote
Jurassic Park, before he scripted blockbuster movies like
Twister, before he created the groundbreaking TV series
ER, Michael Crichton was an honors student at Harvard Medical School - and writing paperback suspense novels on the side, under the top-secret pen name "John Lange." Lange wrote eight books between 1966 and 1972...and then vanished.
Until, 40 years after John Lange was born, Michael Crichton chose Hard Case Crime to bring him back, personally re-editing two Lange books, even writing new chapters for one of them. Now Hard Case Crime is proud to bring all of John Lange's work back into print for the first time in decades - and the first time ever under Michael Crichton's real name.
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- Series: Hard Case Crime
- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Hard Case Crime (November 19, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1783291222
- ISBN-13: 978-1783291229
- Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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I love Michael Crichton's science-based thrillers, both the books and the movies. It is the science and the imagination that carry them, the writing is professional but uninspired, the characters merely passable, the character development erratic or missing and the pacing is uneven. When Crichton worked as a screenwriter and a director those faults disappear, I suspect thanks to collaborators.
The Venom Business is an overlong and mediocre attempt at a noir thriller, with fragments of a science thriller clumsily pasted in. Those fragments are the best part: the detailed accounts of the neuropsychology and pharmacology of violence (developed more fully in Terminal Man), the brilliant subjective description of a heart attack, the material about the business of reptile hunting. They underlie the only interesting part of the plot, an innovative version of the inheritance murder canard.
An interesting failure is the attempt to tell the story in waves that radiate out from the main character both forward and backward in time, presenting Rashomon-like retellings of the same events from different perspectives. However Crichton lacks the skill to make this work properly, the result is a simple plot made convoluted by disordered telling. Too many characters and events serve no purpose other than to make a 120-page plot fill 390 pages.
A few different noir thrillers seem to be trying to break out of this mess.