by John Lange
Publisher: Bantam Books
Release Date: March 1972
ISBN: 5530761812
ASIN: B00DEU9GYE
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
Genre: Thriller
Time to read: 4 hours
Source: PaperbackSwap.com
aStore Link (Real Book): Binary
aStore Link (Kindle Book): Binary
Summary
(from GoodReads)
Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction – and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is.
When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together – but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people ... including the President of the United States?My Reaction
I had read Binary in February 2013 after I was so excited to receive from a user at PaperBackSwap.com. I had a format of a review ready for it, but I never finished it. So, I decided to re-read it to fill up some of my reading this year because, just maybe, reading something I had read before would speed up my reading, which would in turn make me want to read more often.
I certainly sped through this book written under a pseudonym by Michael Crichton. My initial review when I read it two years ago was that it was written kind of hastily, and seeing as how Crichton wrote it while finishing his medical degree, it probably was. This time around it felt really well paced. I especially enjoyed getting an early glimpse of what would become Crichton's signature style, in particular the prologue written with the factual and formal sound of a court summary detailing the specifics of a case after the collection of all evidence and testimony.
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