Booklist STATE OF FEAR is Michael Crichton’s best. Perhaps his most serious and important book yet. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The thrills of Crichton’s latest are interspersed with fascinating facts and data. State of Fear is an excellent novel that concisely and clearly presents the arguments long asserted by those who are skeptical of claims that we know the climate is changing, that we know what causes the climate to change, and that we know enough to take control over the global climate through the manipulation of greenhouse gases. Gripping and thought-provoking, State of Fear is Michael Crichton at his very best. STATE OF FEAR is a valuable education in the guise of entertainment. The novel races forward, taking the reader on a rollercoaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear. State of Fear takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon Islands, from the streets of Paris to the beaches of Los Angeles. This is Michael Crichton's most wide-ranging thriller. Only Michael Crichton's unique ability to blend science fact and pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to a heart-stopping conclusion. Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative technothriller, State of Fear. She is the author of the Sunday Times Bestseller, A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic’. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.

In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.

In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our health and our minds. In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.

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