Book Preview Twenty years ago, my first experience with computers occurred while I was a student of William Howells at Harvard. Because Howells treated these machines with good sense and good humor, I did, too. Howells regarded computers as a useful, sometimes exasperating tool, but he felt that to indulge fears about them was a … Read more
Book Preview As he appears in an early photograph, William Johnson is a handsome young man with a crooked smile and a naive grin. A study in slouching indifference, he lounges against a Gothic building. He is a tall fellow, but his height appears irrelevant to his presentation of himself. The photograph is dated “New … Read more
Book Preview It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer: (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin or (2) … Read more
Book Preview “Crichton is a doctor of suspense. Besides being an exciting saga, CONGO is jam-packed with facts and knowledge about computers, technology, the jungle and ‘talking’ apes.” Des Moines Sunday Register “Crichton is a doctor of suspense. Besides being an exciting saga, CONGO is jam-packed with facts and knowledge about computers, technology, the jungle … Read more
Book Preview John Lange is the nom de plume of Michael Crichton who is the bestselling author of Jurassic Park and Rising Sun. He was born in Chicago in 1942 and was educated at Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. He has written works of both fiction and non-fiction, and has directed films including … Read more
Book Preview “Experience the heart-pounding thrills of flight.… Crichton does for airplanes what Clancy does for submarines.… A surprising and satisfying conclusion.” —Los Angeles Times “Experience the heart-pounding thrills of flight.… Crichton does for airplanes what Clancy does for submarines.… A surprising and satisfying conclusion.” “Tautly plotted … Guaranteed: the next time you fasten your seat belt … Read more
Book Preview I will prescribe regimen for the good of my pa tients, according to my judgment and ability, and never do harm to anyone. To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug, nor give advice which may cause his death. Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion. But … Read more
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Book Preview He came to town riding the wind; when he left, he reckoned he’d do it just about the same way. The thing was, Lafayette Jackson Hendricks had been in the wind a long damned time, and he’d had just about enough of that shit to last a lifetime. In his current occupation, though, … Read more
Book Preview “They got her,” I said as I walked into the office, bare-chested, in the middle of the night. It was summer, and steamy, and I was sweating to beat the damned band. I’d just flown in from Maple Grove, Minnesota, to Eden Prairie, where our offices were. Even the brush of the wind … Read more
Book Preview “There are hunters and there are prey in life, see,” Charlie Cooper told the clerk behind the counter of the shop, nestled in a corner of East London, “and I don’t figure you for a hunter.” Cooper held his hand up at the clerk; it didn’t shake at all. It hadn’t shaken when … Read more
Book Preview “Any last words?” Greg Vansen asked, wagging his finger at Percy Sledger. Sledger stood at the edge of a precipice that overlooked the Columbia River and Interstate 85 several hundred feet below. Greg figured that in daytime it was probably a stunning natural overlook, for those who were interested in such things. For … Read more
Book Preview “Romeo and Juliet. Bonnie and Clyde. That’s our kind of love story, baby. That’s who we are. That’s our destiny.” June Randall laughed as she said the words aloud, brushing her strawberry blond hair back over her shoulders and kicking the beach sand between her toes. Elliot Lefavre—she called him “Ell” because it … Read more
Book Preview Messenger Status: Online. Thirty thousand feet was a strange place to find myself into the biggest trouble of my life, but somehow I managed it. Airplane etiquette dictates you should just lean your seat back, put your tray table to the down position, eat your snack, take the Coke or whatever it is … Read more
Book Preview I woke up alone, in a bed that wasn’t my own, as I had for months. The smell of stale cigarette smoke had long ago settled into the furnishings around me, and into my nose, a subtle, constant irritation. I blinked, looking at the thin slits of light that made their way through … Read more
Book Preview There are two types of people in the world. In the days of yore, when we used to hang people from a gallows for wrongdoing, the first type would see that criminal swinging, tongue sticking out, face turning blue, and say, “Gosh, I don’t ever want that to happen to me.” Then they’d … Read more
Book Preview How many stories were there in New York City? Nadine Griffin didn’t know and didn’t really care, but until recently, she was pretty confident hers was one of the best. Born to privilege, Nadine had gone to the most elite prep schools, summered in the Hamptons, wintered wherever the skiing was good and … Read more
Book Preview The alley was dark, a slick of melted snow and recent rain coating the asphalt surface. The liquid caught the glare of the lone light hanging above, the only bulb in the long, narrow alley that hadn’t burned out. It gave the ground a sheen like a sun was burning somewhere overhead beyond … Read more