by Michael Crichton
Book 1 in the Jurassic Park series (1990)
Publisher: Arrow
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.
Until something goes wrong. . . .
In this spectacular novel, dinosaurs conquer Earth again. On a remote island, a group of men and women embarks on a race against time to avoid a global disaster caused by the excessive ambition to commercialize genetic engineering. But all efforts will be futile when the unscrupulous project is out of control and the world at the mercy of monstrous beasts …
State-of-the-art science and suspense combine in this uniquely exciting high-tension thriller from the author of The Andromeda Strain. Bio-engineers create authentic, detail-perfect, real-life dinosaurs for a Pacific island theme park, but scientific triumph explodes into horrendous disaster as the first visitors encounter the unbelievable.
In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller. It combines an action-packed adventure story with a cautionary tale of corporate, capitalistic greed gone wrong and rolls it all into a humanistic story with excellent characterization and that could be read as a powerful allegory of the harsh realities of laissez-faire economics.
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