Crichton dramatizes his message by way of a frantic chase to prevent environmental terrorists from wreaking widespread destruction aimed at galvanizing the world against global warming. If he is wrong, then the novel will be remembered simply as another smart and robust, albeit preachy, addition to an astonishing writing career that has produced, among other works, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure and The Andromeda Strain. If Crichton is right-if the scientific evidence for global warming is thin if the environmental movement, ignoring science, has gone off track if we live in what he in his Author's Message calls a ""State of Fear,"" a ""near-hysterical preoccupation with safety that's at best a waste of resources and a crimp on the human spirit, and at worst an invitation to totalitarianism""-then his extraordinary new thriller may in time be viewed as a landmark publication, both cautionary and prophetic.
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