"His best work since The Andromeda Strain."-Los Angeles Times Book Review"Michael Crichton has done what he does best: giving us supense for our nerve endings and enough scientific speculation to keep our brains working at the same time."-Newsweek"A fast-paced adventure ... Just when the reader is certain nothing more can go wrong for the hapless band of explorers, the author twists the screw a notch tighter."-San Francisco Chronicle[[more]]"Ingenious and beguiling."-Time"With [[this]] thriller, Michael Crichton returns to the kind of high-tech setting he evoked so successfully in The Andromeda Strain. ... Crichton keeps the action moving. ... Sphere is a perfect book for the beach."-The Cleveland Plain Dealer"Plumbs the frightening depths of perverted psychology ... Few writers can make science as entertaining as does Crichton. There is plenty of mystery and misdirection to sustain the suspense, and the plotting is always clever. ... A thoughtful and thrilling probe into the murky de
