Back If you love Michael Crichton..... | Book List

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  If you love Michael Crichton.....  
Riptide

Douglas J Preston
Format: Print book

IN 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Loch

Steve Alten - Tsunami Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Loch Ness holds secrets, ancient and deadly. Does a monster inhabit its depths, or is it just myth? Why, after thousands of reported sightings and dozens of expeditions, is there still no hard evidence? Marine biologist Zachery Wallace knows, but the shock of his near-drowning as a child...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Neanderthal

John Darnton
Format: Book

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Darnton combines breathtaking suspense, thorough scientific research, and dazzling storytelling to create a brilliantly inventive novel about the extraordinary rediscovery of a tribe of Neanderthals, who have survived in part because of their
Read More check catalog
 
 
Vitals

Greg Bear
Format: Book

Blending fierce, fast plots with vivid characters and mind-bending ideas, Greg Bear has mastered a powerful alchemy of suspense, science, and action in his gripping thrillers. Darwin's Radio was hailed across the country as one of the best books of the year. His newest nove
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Terror: A Novel

Dan Simmons - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Descent: A Novel

Jeff Long
Format: Book

Hell exists.In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth....In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali von Sc
Read More check catalog
 
 
8.4

Peter Hernon
Format: Book

The stories are the stuff of legend, and they are all true. In 1811 and 1812, three earthquakes measuring 8 on the Richter scale ruptured an area spanning twenty-four states and a third of the land mass of the United States. Lakes formed in Tennessee, church bells rang in Boston,
Read More check catalog
 
 
Excavation

James Rollins - Harper; Reprint edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback

High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Ingenious...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Esau

Philip Kerr - Henry Holt & Co; 1st trade ed edition
Format: Hardcover

The accidental discovery of a mysterious fossil skull unleashes a political and scientific struggle as a paleoanthropologist tries to confirm that the skull represents proof of a missing link, while in the Punjab, two nuclear powers draw ever closer to war. 100,000 first printing.
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Crusader: A Novel

Michael Alexander Eisner
Format: Book

A rousing historical novel of extraordinarily broad appeal, about a Crusader with a heavy heart.The Year of Our Lord, 1275, Santes Creus monastery, Spain. Brother Lucas, a venal and moderately trustworthy monk, is put in charge of an exorcism. His former fellow acolyte, th
Read More check catalog
 
 
Dark Matter: A Novel

Blake Crouch - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Format: Hardcover

A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy-"Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Fireman: A Novel

Joe Hill - William Morrow
Format: Audiobook

Click Here For the Autographed Copy From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Sleeping Giants

Sylvain Neuvel - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery - and a fight to control a gargantuan power.A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Panacea

F Paul Wilson - Tor
Format: Print book

Medical examiner Laura Hanning has two charred corpses and no answers. Both bear a mysterious tattoo but exhibit no known cause of death. Their only connection to one another is a string of puzzling miracle cures. Her preliminary investigation points to a cult in the possession of the fabled...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Seventh Plague: A Sigma Force Novel

James Rollins - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Large print book

In a breathtaking blend of scientific intrigue and historical mystery, #1 New York Times bestselling mastermind, James Rollins, reveals an ancient threat hidden within the pages of the Bible, one that threatens the modern world inThe Seventh PlagueIf the biblical plagues of Egypt truly...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The water knife

Paolo Bacigalupi - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Print book

The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Faces of the Gone: A Mystery

Brad Parks - Minotaur Books
Format: Paperback

Investigative reporter Carter Ross finds himself with gruesome front-page news four bodies in a vacant lot, each with a single bullet hole in the back of the head. In a haste to calm residents, local police leak a story to Carters colleagues at the Newark Eagle-Examiner, calling the murders...
Read More check catalog