While The Andromeda Strain is usually considered to be Michael Crichton's debut, he had already been writing novels under the name John Lange. They are reissued here under his own name at last, and each is a full-fledged example of the techno-thrillers that became his trademark.
Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction, even as federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, just one step behind him. When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together, but in Crichton's 1972 espionage tale, can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people?