State of Fear
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Michael Crichton's new 'Fear'
He's a master of mayhem, a harbinger of high-tech horrors, a champion at crafting nail-biting suspense. Michael Crichton has scared us silly by imagining what might go horribly wrong in our modern world, from extraterrestrial contaminants in The Andromeda Strain to dinosaur cloning in Jurassic Park. With a degree from Harvard Medical School, a lifelong interest in technology and the ability to turn out eerily believable plots, Crichton is uniquely qualified to make us wonder what is just around the corner (or under the bed). His new thriller, State of Fear, will be released on December 7, and readers are already in a state of suspense about the book. Publisher HarperCollins has slapped a "top-secret" label on Crichton's latest project and won't reveal any hint of the novel's subject matter. "I can't tell you anything about the book, except the title and the on-sale date," says a tight-lipped HarperCollins publicist. The publisher's website gives only a few vague details about the setting: "From the streets of Paris, to the glaciers of Antarctica to the exotic and dangerous Solomon Islands, State of Fear takes the reader on a roller-coaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear." The secrecy has pushed fans into a frenzy, with all sorts of speculation on where Crichton might be headed in State of Fear. Could the book deal with terrorism? Hostages? Public hysteria? Writing on his own website, Crichton indicates that the book's "general area of interest" is the environment, a subject about which he has expressed controversial views that have raised the ire of environmentalists. Where the topic will lead him is anyone's guess, but the answers will be clear to book buyers on December 7.
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