Author:Michael Crichton
NOW CELEBRATING ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY
Read the spectacular techno-thriller that catapulted Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton to fame.
Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilisation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to 'collect organisms and dust for study'.
Then a probe falls to the earth, landing in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona. A little while later, in the nearby town of Piedmont, bodies are discovered heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. But the terror has only just begun, because when they try to find the cause of death, the scientists don't realise just what kind of unearthly danger they are dealing with...
Brilliantly filmed by Robert Wise in 1971, The Andromeda Strain was the first book to introduce Michael Crichton's audacious combination of believable plots and white-knuckled excitement to a wide audience.
He had me convinced it was all really happening
—— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt , New York TimesScience fiction, which once frightened me because it seemed so far-out, now frightens me because it seems so near. The Andromeda Strain is as matter-of-fact as the skull-and-crossbones instructions on a bottle of poison - and just as chillingly effective
—— LifeTerrifying...One of the most important novels of the year
—— Library JournalThe best book Hemingway has written
—— New York TimesThe best fictional report on the Spanish Civil War that we possess
—— Anthony BurgessIt is the Rock and Roll of novels
—— Norman MailerCatch-22 is the only war novel I've ever read that makes any sense
—— Harper LeeOnce you "get it" it is a gripping and devastating insight into the pointlessness and bureaucracy of war and its consequences
—— The TimesThe most devastating satire ever written about the lunacy of war and military bureaucracy
—— Antony BeevorWildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly, savagely funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it
—— New York TimesNot only the best novel to come out of the war but the best novel to come out of anywhere in years
—— The NationThe greatest satirical work in the English language since EREHWON
—— Philip Tonybee , ObserverParis Echo is an enjoyable and highly readable novel. Faulks has an easy-going style and he draws you seemingly without effort into the world he creates. He has a knowing humour too…In part the novel is a love letter to Paris, but it is also the latest product of Faulk’s long-standing and fascinating engagement with the devastating events of the 20th century.
—— Literary ReviewThis intelligent, moving, often disturbing novel is also really a love letter to Paris – and, indeed, to France
—— i paperFaulks excels at creating well-rounded characters.
—— Good HousekeepingAn intriguing guide to the many layers of Parisien life.
—— Anthony Gardner , Mail on SundayMaster storytelling... [An] intriguing and moving story that shows how the future is shaped by the past.
—— Women & Home‘Paris Echo is an enjoyable and highly readable novel. Faulks has an easy-going style and he draws you seemingly without effort into the world he creates. He has a knowing humour too…In part the novel is a love letter to Paris, but it is also the latest product of Faulk’s long-standing and fascinating engagement with the devastating events of the 20th century.’
—— Literary ReviewImmersive
—— The SpectatorA lovely novel by a writer who lives and breathes France
—— Saga MagazineFaulks masterfully reminds readers of the city’s indecipherable mystique and bottomless artistic generosity
—— The Culture Trip‘[a} stimulating novel’
—— Country & Town HouseAnother terrific, intelligent read from Faulks
—— Reader's Digest
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