Michael Crichton

A history-making volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the military is more terrifying than the volcano.

It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.

A computer specialist suffering from violent seizures has electrodes implanted in his brain to soothe his impulses. He soon learns to program the implants himself, and escapes the hospital, a homicidal maniac with a deadly agenda.

"For American radiologist Peter Ross, it sounded like the perfect vacation: deliver one study in Spain and then spend the rest of his time on a Mediterranean beach. But he wasn't planning on meeting Angela Locke, a dark-haired beauty with a big problem--she's on the run from two warring gangs, each dead set on finding a mysterious artifact, and they'll kill anyone who stands in their way. It's a desperate fight for survival across the European continent...

"Michael Crichton presents a story about pirates in the New World"--Provided by publisher. The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad, " guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.

In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle-designated The Andromeda Strain-killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a catastrophic...

This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies--until something goes wrong with their circuitry.

A master thief conceives a brilliant plan to steal a fortune in gold bars from a railroad payroll car. To pull off the most daring heist in history, he must join forces with a safecracker and his own beautiful girlfriend in a series of intricately plotted thefts that will test all of their nerve, camaraderie, and larcenous skill.