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Article: Fatal Promotion - a flawed thriller
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 18, 1994
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CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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THRILLER novels that make you sweat over whether the hero gets
out alive are common enough. But the tension that holds you during
the new Michael Crichton novel, Disclosure, is whether the writer
will survive in one piece.
Crichton's last work was Jurassic Park, an American export that
was both the most popular book and the most popular movie in
Britain and most other countries last year. So there would have
been strong precedent, and commercial pressure, for the author
simply to put the clone programme in his word processor for a
genetic engineering sequel. Instead, he has risked classification
as an ideological dinosaur, and the alienation of half his vast
audience.
Disclosure, published ...