It’s all in service of hammering home the idea that, in Japan, business is war. So let’s go.Ĭrichton’s lurid whodunit is a thoroughly paranoid wannabe-exposé of Japanese business development in smoggy, fast-paced, traffic-clogged, corrupt Los Angeles in the early ’90s, peopled with a cast of sleazy journalists and lawyers, sex-fiend politicians, smug celebrities, tittering secretaries, and drugged-out models.
Those are worth investigating, but not here: We’re solely ranking the novels published under Crichton’s own name, from worst to best, which, as you’ll see, is plenty. also released four books of nonfiction, as well as a couple early efforts under pseudonyms, and his last book, Micro, was finished by Richard Preston. In addition to his novels, the Harvard-trained M.D. (There’s a serious conservative streak running through his novels.) Crichton died at age 66 in 2008, which means we’ll never get to see what exotic adventures this intellectually curious and endlessly imaginative - if exuberantly pedantic - guy would make of, say, social media or Bitcoin mining, but he left more than enough behind. rex or a sexually dominating female boss. Like his fellow superstar novelists Tom Clancy (military technology) and John Grisham (lawyers), Crichton had his own distinctive and incredibly page-turning shtick: meticulously researched settings that involve a crack team of experts combating a wild social or scientific breakthrough of some kind or another, be it a hungry T. The Complete Works: Ranking All 64 Stephen King Books
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