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As an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles Raynaud is accustomed to danger. So the job body-guarding an old acquaintance about to come into a fortune shouldn't make him break a sweat.
But when the attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed, he's left wondering: is he the killers' real target…?
©1969 John Lange; Copyright renewed 2005 by CrichtonSun LLC. “John Lange” and “The Venom Business” are trademarks of CrichtonSun LLC, used under license (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reservedLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- De: John O'Hara, Lorin Stein - introduction
- Narrado por: Gretchen Mol
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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A masterpiece of American fiction and a best seller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday morning, Gloria wakes up in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress, stockings, and panties. When she steals a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she unleashes a series of events that can only end in tragedy.
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Wildly Uneven
- De David P en 08-27-15
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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Where Love Has Gone
- De: Harold Robbins
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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In love and soon to be a father, Luke Carey has the life he's always wanted. That is until a mysterious, late-night phone call summons him to San Francisco. Luke's first daughter, whom he hasn't seen in six years, 14-year-old Danielle, needs him, and he's desperate to do anything he can to help. But coming back into Danielle's life means facing his ex-wife, Nora, and the explosive, violent drama of the life he left behind.
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Will it ever end?
- De Amazon Customer en 04-23-22
De: Harold Robbins
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Knockdown
- De: Dick Francis
- Narrado por: Tony Britton
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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For a generous commission, ex-prizewinning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman. But his life is thrust into danger immediately following the auction, when he receives a blow to the head by two thugs demanding ownership of the horse.
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A Classic Dick Francis Story
- De Gregg MacDonald en 02-16-23
De: Dick Francis
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Nobody's Sweetheart Now
- De: Maggie Robinson
- Narrado por: Gemma Dawson
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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England, 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a French mademoiselle in the passenger seat. With the house now Addie's, needed improvements in hand, and a weekend house party underway, how inconvenient of Rupert to turn up - not in the flesh, but as a spirit! Rupert has to perform a few good deeds before becoming welcomed to heaven.
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Fresh New Voice For Me..Very Good
- De John en 08-06-20
De: Maggie Robinson
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The Confession
- De: Jo Spain
- Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins, Matt Jamie
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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Late one night, a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara and his wife Julie. And when the man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry, a horror-struck Julie, frozen by fear, watches her husband die. Just one hour later, the attacker, J. P. Carney, hands himself into the police and confesses to beating Harry to death. But he also claims that the assault was not premeditated and that he didn’t know the identity of his victim.
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Confession
- De Elaine en 12-10-19
De: Jo Spain
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Youngblood Hawke
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 41 h y 5 m
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Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man moves from rural Kentucky to New York to assault the citadel of New York publishing with his first novel, an oversized manuscript that becomes an instant success. Toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of popularity, he gives himself over to the lush life that gilds artistic success. Love comes with an affair with an older married woman and an unfulfilled flame with his editor, while wealth pours in with the publication of his second novel, and participation in real-estate developments.
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More than a good yarn
- De Arken en 10-24-18
De: Herman Wouk
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Running Blind
- De: Desmond Bagley
- Narrado por: Paul Tyreman
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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The assignment begins with a simple errand - a parcel to deliver. But to Alan Stewart, standing on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. The desolate terrain is obstacle enough. But when Stewart realises he has been double-crossed and that the opposition is gaining ground, his simple mission seems impossible....
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Timeless
- De Jim en 01-17-23
De: Desmond Bagley
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The Godfather
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- De: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola - introduction, Anthony Puzo - note, y otros
- Narrado por: Joe Mantegna, Anthony Puzo, Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld. A #1 New York Times bestseller in 1969, Mario Puzo's epic was turned into the incomparable film of the same name, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is the original classic that has been often imitated, but never matched.
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Huge fan of the movie, loved this audiobook!
- De Dana en 10-04-13
De: Mario Puzo, y otros
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The Snakes
- A Novel
- De: Sadie Jones
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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The Snakes exposes the damage wreaked by parents on children as observed by a new member of the family, Dan, a mixed-race man from Peckham who marries Bea, the daughter who refuses to take any of her father’s filthy money. But when Bea’s brother, Alex (who runs a shabby hotel in Paligny, France), dies suddenly in unexplained circumstances, the confusion and suspicion which arise bring other dark family secrets - and violence - to the surface. And none of the family, even the good members, go untouched.
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Extraordinary!
- De Bibliophile en 07-21-19
De: Sadie Jones
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Scratch One
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt…Portugal…Denmark…France. In response, the United States sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down. But when the agent is delayed in transit, lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him. Now, with some of the world's deadliest men after him, will he survive long enough to prove his identity?
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Mistaken Identity Thriller, Superb Narration
- De Admiralu en 03-29-20
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Odds On
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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The plan: to rob the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain. The crew: three seasoned criminals with the skills to pull off the heist of the century. The edge: every aspect of the scheme has been simulated in a computer, down to the last variable.
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Odds On a Different Outcome than Expected
- De Admiralu en 09-24-19
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Binary
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 4 h y 26 m
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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?
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Fast paced, explosive, and fun.
- De Eric & Amy Dewey en 08-16-17
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Zero Cool
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim.
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Great book with odd beginning
- De hgpilot - MM en 08-28-15
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Grave Descend
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 3 h y 39 m
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Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carrying....
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Island Intrigue
- De Admiralu en 08-25-18
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Drug of Choice
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of Eden Island and of Advance Biosystems, the shadowy corporation underwriting it...
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All of his favorite themes were already in place
- De Matthew en 07-11-15
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Scratch One
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt…Portugal…Denmark…France. In response, the United States sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down. But when the agent is delayed in transit, lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him. Now, with some of the world's deadliest men after him, will he survive long enough to prove his identity?
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Mistaken Identity Thriller, Superb Narration
- De Admiralu en 03-29-20
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Odds On
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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The plan: to rob the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain. The crew: three seasoned criminals with the skills to pull off the heist of the century. The edge: every aspect of the scheme has been simulated in a computer, down to the last variable.
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Odds On a Different Outcome than Expected
- De Admiralu en 09-24-19
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Binary
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 4 h y 26 m
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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?
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Fast paced, explosive, and fun.
- De Eric & Amy Dewey en 08-16-17
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Zero Cool
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim.
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Great book with odd beginning
- De hgpilot - MM en 08-28-15
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Grave Descend
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 3 h y 39 m
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Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carrying....
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Island Intrigue
- De Admiralu en 08-25-18
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Drug of Choice
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of Eden Island and of Advance Biosystems, the shadowy corporation underwriting it...
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- De Matthew en 07-11-15
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Easy Go
- De: Michael Crichton, John Lange
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site - and plunder it.
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Archeological Adventure in 1960's Egypt
- De Hans Rigelman en 08-01-17
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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A Case of Need
- A Novel
- De: Michael Crichton, Jeffery Hudson
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall’s teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood? The natural suspect is Arthur Lee, a brilliant surgeon and known abortionist, who has been carrying out the illegal procedure with the help of pathologist John Berry.
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Not Mr Cricghton's Best Work
- De Lia en 09-12-18
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Travels
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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Fueled by a powerful curiosity - and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up - Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling - swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels - an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world.
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Pretty good, but takes a turn into left field...
- De Jeffrey D. en 06-28-18
De: Michael Crichton
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The Terminal Man
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blacks out when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain's pleasure centers.
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Ahh.. The Pre-Micro Chip Era
- De Kim Venatries en 09-04-15
De: Michael Crichton
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Rising Sun
- A Novel
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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A riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests. On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles - the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate - a grand opening celebration is in full swing. On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the corpse of a beautiful young woman is discovered.
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THESE DAYS, EVERYBODY IS BUILDING WALLS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-14-17
De: Michael Crichton
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Micro
- A Novel
- De: Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined.
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Honey, I Shrunk Your I.Q.
- De Amanda en 11-23-11
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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Disclosure
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: John Lithgow
- Duración: 4 h y 3 m
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A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry...a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse...a shocking accusation that threatens to derail a brilliant career...Michael Crichton is at his galvanizing best.
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THIS NEEDED TO BE UNABRIDGED
- De jaye en 02-04-18
De: Michael Crichton
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Next
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: Dylan Baker
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.
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interesting topic - dull, boring, confusing book
- De Ronald en 12-09-06
De: Michael Crichton
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Dragon Teeth
- A Novel
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Sherri Crichton
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories, even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.
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Exceptional Surprise!
- De Roman en 06-05-17
De: Michael Crichton
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The Great Train Robbery
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: Michael Kitchen
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?
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An unusual but rewarding listen
- De Matthew en 11-21-15
De: Michael Crichton
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Eaters of the Dead
- De: Michael Crichton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs - the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness...their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth.
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FEAR HAS A WHITE MOUTH
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 04-15-17
De: Michael Crichton
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Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
- De: Michael Crichton, Douglas Crichton, Michael Douglas
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
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The suitcase looks like a standard weekend bag. But like the man who carries it, it isn't what it seems. Lined with tinfoil to mask the smell, it is a smuggler's bag and will soon be filled to the brim with marijuana bricks. The smuggler is a Harvard student who has come to California to make his fortune. He hopes to score not just with his connection but with his new girlfriend, a Golden State beauty with an appetite for fine weed. When the deal goes south, she takes the fall, and a crooked FBI agent swipes half the stash.
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Enjoyable but not Crichton's best work
- De Blaise en 10-03-19
De: Michael Crichton, y otros
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- Blaise
- 08-28-18
One of the early Crichton's better books
While Crichton's early works usually have extremely well endowed characters (financially, intellectually, and beautiful), this book had an engaging plot with many twists. Very enjoyable listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-01-18
Should be a movie!!
Awesome time capsule of 60's London, so glad these stories have emerged as Michael Crichton. I miss his work so much and really enjoyed this pulp version, with a little science mised in. Jon Hamm should play Charles in this great novel
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- Kim Henderson
- 11-19-24
An awesome and exciting end.
What an interesting story.
But I didn't like there wasn't a decent female in the entire book.
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- Admiralu
- 04-25-20
Complicated Convoluted Plot, Superb Narration
I am a big fan of Michael Crichton’s books and have been reading and listening to his early crime thrillers. This book completes the John Lange book cycle. I have enjoyed them all, save this one. None of the characters were particularly likeable. It was extremely long with a convoluted plot. A good third of this book could’ve been cut to tighten up the storyline. It started out ok, the snake man using his knowledge to cover his smuggling. He then is brought in by an old flame to be set up in a complicated plot regarding her stepson and his inheritance. Being manipulated by three different people, smuggler Raynaud struggles to figure out the plot. The middle section drags terribly and forced myself to continue. The last part was excellent as the grand plans all fell apart. Yet there was no happy ending. The saving grace of this was Christopher Lane’s superb performance on the audiobook as usual. His dialects are fabulous and he made even the dull sections interesting. Not a must read.
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- Tyler
- 03-18-19
First Listen of Crichton as John Lange
As a huge fan of Michael Crichton, I was excited to find out that Audible had his early works available from when he was writing under the pseudonym of John Lange. I had heard rumors that these novels existed, but never actually did much research until recently to track them down.
As I chose the Venom Business as my first listen from this time period, I have to say that I found myself riding an emotional rollercoaster whilst listening to the novel. The story itself did a great job of setting the mood of a pulp, 1960s era London (after researching things from that time, I can confirm this) and really gave me a visual image of how things were back then in my mind's eye. I also have to praise Christopher Lane as his performance of the various characters was both distinct enough that I could tell who was speaking before he read "character's name here said" as well as his use of accents were tastefully done.
Speaking of characters, I have to say that each one present here gave me a sense of Crichton's progression as a writer in his later career. What I mean is that some of the characters felt a little one dimensional. I'm not sure if this was the intention because of the film noir style of the story, but that was just the impression I got while listening. Also, the story itself started out a very pulpy action / mystery with a little of bit of Crichton's now famous scientific discussion sprinkled in, only to in my opinion kind of fizzle out at the end. Again, I'm not sure if this was the intention, but I got the feeling of watching old black and white movies where the 'lesson' or 'message' learned is given in a paragraph of dialogue and then the credits appear suddenly.
I in no way think this is a bad novel, and encourage fans of Crichton to give it a listen. I am going to continue to listen to the other novels from "John Lange' as their similar in plot, as well as the fact that Christopher Lane seems to narrate them all.
These novels are truly an interesting insight into Crichton's early years, and I can't wait to listen to the next novel in this series.
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- Adrian
- 07-16-16
Not his best one
A bit boring, didnt get into the story much at all. I heard it in pieces over a longer time than usual.
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- Dillon Burgess
- 04-07-19
Meh
Christopher Lane is an excellent narrator, but this story sort of drags along. It’s the fare you’d expect from Michael Crichton as John Lange...a James Bonde-esque romp with off-puttingly sexist undertones.
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- Cindy Ware
- 03-10-18
Not my kind of book
It's certainly not like his books now. I finished it to see how it ended. But I wouldn't listen to it again like I have his recent books. The narrator was good.
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