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by Michael Crichton
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... .
At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.
Airframe is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.
"Impressing the boss is one of the great unacknowledged subjects of the modern-day thriller ... in Mr. Crichton's books it reaches a truly ruthless pitch: his fiction is one long efficiency drive." —The New York Times Book Review
"It's a tribute to Crichton's talents that the theme of airplane safety and frame construction turns into a riveting thriller which is so hard to put down. Even those used to traditional airplane disaster stories will relish the different atmosphere here, which focuses on a plane's problems and the underlying politics affecting an entire plane building company's corporate structure and coworker relationships. A savvy female investigator finds her job and very life on the line as she struggles against time to uncover the truth about a puzzling plane disaster." —Midwest Book Review
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Michael Crichton was born in Chicago and was graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. At twenty-three, Crichton was a visiting lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge University, England. Upon his return to the States, Crichton began training as a doctor, and was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1969. He paid his way through medical school by writing pseudonymous thrillers, one of which (A Case of Need, 1968) won an Edgar Award. By the time he graduated, Crichton had already written a bestseller (The Andromeda Strain, 1969) and sold it to Hollywood. He then pursued postgraduate studies at the Salk Institute in California before taking up writing full time.
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