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Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blacks out when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain's pleasure centers.

The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs - the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness...their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth.

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

En gruppe forskere opdager ruinerne af en borg, der blandt meget andet gemmer et kammer, der ikke har aeret åbnet i 600 år. Rummet leder to studerende på sporet af en tidsmaskine og de finder ud af, at chefforskeren er fanget i fortiden. Straks tager de to tilbage i tiden for at frelse deres boss og saette tingene på plads. OM FORFATTEREN: Michael Crichton er bl.a. manden bag "Jurassic Park" og "Truslen" fra det ukendte.

Spaendingsroman om et amerikansk flyselskab, flysikkerhed i USA og mediernes behandling af ulykkestilfaelde. OM FORFATTEREN Michael Crichton er bl.a. manden bag "Jurassic Park" og "Truslen" fra det ukendte. Hans bøger har solgt over 100 millioner eksemplarer på verdensplan og er elsket af mange. Hans bøger beskaeftiger sig med alt fra global opvarming og medicinsk teknologi til kaosteori og terrorister.

En stor amerikansk elektronikvirksomhed ansaetter en kvindelig divisionschef, som viser sig at foretage en raekke tvivlsomme dispositioner og bruger sexchikane som et af sine arbejdsredskaber. OM FORFATTEREN: Michael Crichton er bl.a. manden bag "Jurassic Park" og "Truslen" fra det ukendte. Hans bøger har solgt over 100 millioner eksemplarer på verdensplan og er elsket af mange. Hans bøger beskaeftiger sig med alt fra global opvarming og medicinsk teknologi til kaosteori og terrorister.

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to...

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the...

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the...

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions. Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride mixing cutting edge science and action-packed adventure in State of Fear. In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a...

In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall’s teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood? The natural suspect is Arthur Lee, a brilliant surgeon and known abortionist, who has been carrying out the illegal procedure with the help of pathologist John Berry.

Michael Crichton, auteur de Jurassic Park, et James Patterson, un des auteurs les plus lus dans le monde, forment un duo de choc et créent un page-turner déjà #1 sur la liste des bestsellers du New York Times. Une éruption menace de détruire la grande île de Hawaii, mais les conséquences d'un secret enseveli pendant des décennies par l'armée américaine semblent encore plus terrifiantes que le volcan. Avril 2025, tandis que John MacGregor entraîne des jeunes surfeurs sur une plage de la grande île de Hawaii, une secousse volcanique fait trembler la terre.

Ein verheerender Vulkanausbruch bedroht Hawaii. Doch der Vulkan birgt ein Geheimnis, das die gesamte Welt vernichten könnte... 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.

Ein verheerender Vulkanausbruch bedroht Hawaii. Doch der Vulkan birgt ein Geheimnis, das die gesamte Welt vernichten könnte... 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.

La suite du best-seller qui a inspiré le film de Steven Spielberg. Suite de "Jurassic Park", "Le Monde perdu" se déroule six ans après la catastrophe d'Isla Nublar. Bombardée par l'armée, l'île de John Hammond est désormais déserte. Selon le paléontologue Richard Levine, il serait cependant possible que des dinosaures survivent encore non loin de là. Il décide de se rendre sur ce fameux "Site B", mais son expédition tourne vite à la catastrophe.

Le roman qui a inspiré la saga originale du même nom. Isla Nublar. L'armée doit venir "faire le ménage". Le programme dont cette île est le théâtre avait pourtant tout du paradis scientifique : un immense complexe naturel où s'ébattent, aux yeux de tous, les plus féroces sauriens du Jurassique, génétiquement ramenés à la vie...

The suitcase looks like a standard weekend bag. But like the man who carries it, it isn't what it seems. Lined with tinfoil to mask the smell, it is a smuggler's bag and will soon be filled to the brim with marijuana bricks. The smuggler is a Harvard student who has come to California to make his fortune. He hopes to score not just with his connection but with his new girlfriend, a Golden State beauty with an appetite for fine weed. When the deal goes south, she takes the fall, and a crooked FBI agent swipes half the stash.