Jurassic Park: The multimillion copy bestselling thriller
Michael Crichton's iconic science fiction novel has sold millions of copies worldwide and spawned one of cinema's most beloved franchises. It's not hard to see why. The premise is wickedly simple. On a secluded tropical island, a team of genetic engineers has done the unthinkable: brought extinct dinosaurs back to life. A billionaire visionary has turned this scientific achievement into a luxury attraction, where paying visitors can gawk at creatures that vanished from the earth tens of millions of years ago. Thrilling? Absolutely. Wise? Decidedly not. When the park's security systems catastrophically fail, the careful illusion of control collapses almost instantly. Scientists, tourists, and staff find themselves sharing the island with apex predators that have no interest in staying behind fences. What follows is tense, propulsive, and surprisingly thoughtful. Crichton weaves genuine scientific ideas about genetics and chaos theory into a story that moves at real pace. His dinosaurs are not cartoon monsters; they feel disturbingly plausible, which is precisely what makes them so unsettling. The Sunday Telegraph called it his most compulsive novel, and it's difficult to argue. Time Out praised its 'breathtaking adventure', the Washington Post found it 'wonderful and powerful', and the Chicago Sun-Times noted that the dinosaurs are 'genuinely frightening.' Each of those verdicts holds up. This is a novel that raises sharp questions about scientific ambition and human arrogance, all wrapped inside a story you'll read well past a sensible bedtime.
- Author: Michael Crichton
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-1784752224
- Pages: 480 pages