The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton (Arrow Books)

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN is written by Michael Crichton and first published by Arrow Books in the year 1993. Its a very famous book based on a superb imagination of a scientific crisis, specific to the branch of bio-physics.

Just to unnecessarily recount the famous work of the author, he has written Jurassic Park, Congo, Airframe, Prey, Sphere, The great train Robbery; most of which has been produced as motion pictures. He is also the creator of TV serial ER. He is a most famous scientific and fantasy novel writer, whose imagination has no bound. Still his creation dangles on a fine line of fact and fiction that keeps the reader guessing about the authenticity of his stories.

The Andromeda strain as introduced by the author as based on a major American crisis involving five prominent biophysicists. This crisis is about a major breakdown of an epidemic that tells a whole village due to a supposed spread of microbes from outer space, brought on by a government scientific study satellite back to earth. This full novel is based on these five person struggle to unravel the mystery behind this unexplainable catastrophe. In this event they had to keep their and the whole planets future in jeopardy, with a possible nuclear and biological detonations.

This book is just another fabulous collection by the author as his all other famous works. Of course unlike most of the other book this book is more towards fiction than relying to facts. However, his imagination is an excellent base for agencies to take lead on the kind of studies they can do on extra-terrestrial problems that can affect human kind in future. Again an appreciative remark by New York Times and the Library Journal proves the book is up to the classy style and quality that's the hallmark of Michael Crichton Novels.

A Case of Need - Michael Crichton (Arrow Books)

A CASE OF NEED is a medical thriller written by the famous author Michael Crichton. Its a superb novel written during 1960s about the medical practices generally concerning the issue of abortion. This book is published by Arrow Books, first published in the year of 1995. For this book the author had written it under the pseudonym of Jeffery Hudson.
The author is famous for writing Novels like The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Congo, Timeline and is the creator of the famous television series ER. Most of his novels have been casted into motion pictures. The introduction of this book describing a brief account of the author's background while writing this book describes the horrible state of American medicine during 1960s. On this account he had based his story and for not coming to any controversy he had written it under a different name.
Like all his book, this book too danced around the fine line of fact and imagination having an important message for the society. It tells of an account of a supposed murder during abortion of an influential teenage girl and how the actual responsible person has been hunted down by a brave doctor not compromising anything except the truth. In his expedition he had to push through many astonishing medical secrets and facts while struggling with the threats to his life himself.
The total book consists of great many factual details of medical lifestyle and issues with lot many information at the appendices, as consistent with the author's practices of writing his other novels. The author background has helped this book to become more lively and true. A brush with the ongoing medical data sheds light into the pitiable condition of American medicine at that time. At the end, the author's message is clear to legalise the abortion procedure thus saving lives of thousands of women going through illegal abortion practices. A review by famous author Stephen King and Los Angeles Times confirms to the typical quality books produced by Michael Crichton.