Ed here: Ben Boulden's Gravetapping http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=gravetapping&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 never misses.
Here are a few excerpts from his piece on the forthcoming Chricton/Lange
novel. Be sure to read the whole thing.
Ben Boulden:
In the late 1960s and early 1970s Michael Crichton published eight thrillers under the pseudonym John Lange. The Lange novels are something very different than the science fiction Michael Crichton became famous for writing. They are thrillers more in the vein of Desmond Bagley, early Jack Higgins, and Gavin Lyall, and I like them much more than Crichton’s big bestsellers.
The Last Tomb is a thriller as thrillers were meant to be. It is quick, light, and entertaining as hell. There isn’t the slightest bit of character development, but it is populated with an exotic group of characters. There is the wealthy British nobleman financing the operation on a whim who travels with, at a minimum, two young ladies, there is the smuggler, and the thief. It is exciting, and with just enough of a twist at the end to bring a smile.
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The forthcoming Hard Case Crime edition, which will be published as Michael Crichton for the first time, has artwork strikingly similar to the old suspense novel Valley of the Assassinsby Ian MacAlister.
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The Last Tomb is a thriller as thrillers were meant to be. It is quick, light, and entertaining as hell. There isn’t the slightest bit of character development, but it is populated with an exotic group of characters. There is the wealthy British nobleman financing the operation on a whim who travels with, at a minimum, two young ladies, there is the smuggler, and the thief. It is exciting, and with just enough of a twist at the end to bring a smile.
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