Prey
By Michael Crichton
(Harper, Mass Market Paperback, 9780061703089, 528pp.)
Publication Date: November 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover
Categories: Technological, Thrillers
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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles—micro-robots—has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.
It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.
Every attempt to destroy it has failed.
And we are the prey.
MICHAEL CRICHTON’s novels include Pirate Latitudes, Next, State of Fear, Prey, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. He is also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER. One of the most popular writers in the world, he has sold over 150 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen have been made into films. He remains the only writer to have had the number one book, movie and TV show at the same time.
“A TERRIFYING TALE…combining technological verisimilitude with heart-pounding suspense…”
-The Oregonian (Portland)
“PREY delivers that expected Crichton charge.”
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“PREY WILL KEEP YOU TURNING PAGES”
-Chattanooga Times
“Another PAGE-TURNING TRIUMPH”
-Charlotte Observer
“A terrific novelist…He could make most readers lose sleep all night and call in sick the next day.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
“Crichton delivers.”
-USA Today
“This is how to write a thriller …Crichton’s latest page-turning triumph.”
-Detroit Free Press
“Just what his fans expect: A WILD, SCARY RIDE…”
-Detroit Free Press
“INTRICATE PLOTTING AND FLAWLESS PACING…you won’t be able to put it down.”
-Time magazine
“Crichton has proved he knows how to ratchet up the fear factor.”
-Denver Post
“…so god-awful scary and relentless, it’ll knock your head clear of whatever ails you.”
-St. Petersburg Times
“Crichton is a doctor of suspense.”
-Des Moines Sunday Register
“Readers turn to Michael Crichton’s novels for entertainment with relentless drive.”
-San Antonio Express
“Once again, Crichton has proved to be uncannily timely.”
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Michael Crichton has written some of America’s most fantastic novels.”
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“He is without peer.”
-Chattanooga Times
“Crichton writes superbly…the excitment rises with each page.”
-Chicago Tribune
“One of the great storytellers of our age…What an amazing imagination.”
-New York Newsday
“Serious and scary…”
-Washington Post Book World
“Crichton’s books [are]…hugely entertaining.”
-New York Times Book Review
“RELENTLESSLY ENTERTAINING”
-Raleigh News & Observer
“TERRIFYING…IRRESISTIBLY SUSPENSEFUL.”
-New York Times Book Review
“A cross between Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain….”
-Columbus Dispatch
“… a harrowing tale of nanoparticles gone beserk.”
-USA Today
“Crichton is a master storyteller.”
-Detroit News
“INCREDIBLY SCARY and relentless”
-Minneapolis Star Tribune
“CRACKLING…MYSTERIOUS….”
-Entertainment Weekly
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