Rising Sun

A Novel

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

A riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests.

On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles - the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate - a grand opening celebration is in full swing.

On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the corpse of a beautiful young woman is discovered.

The investigation immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue, a no-holds-barred conflict in which control of a vital American technology is the fiercely coveted prize - and in which the Japanese saying "business is war" takes on a terrifying reality.

Rising Sun was made into a film, starring Sean Connery.

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Critic reviews

"A grand maze of plot twists... Crichton's gift for spinning a timely yarn is going to be enough, once again, to serve a current tenant of the bestseller list with an eviction notice." - New York Daily News

✨MacLeod Andrews = Subarashīdesu 素晴らしいです Fantastic

Any additional comments?

Just fantastic! The action, the betrayals, the murder... -contented sigh- just what an action junkie like me needed.

Wish the ending hadn't left me feeling an "uneasy feeling," and all the political preachy feel of the story had my interest else where for a bit but but man oh man, there is not a bored moment in this story.

And I'm not really into FM romances anymore but I kind of wanted more of a story for LAPD lieutenant Smith and the Japanese/Black lab assistant Theresa . I am all about that 💖Interracial love💖 thing! In a way I wish the story had ended with those two side by side because it would have left that tiny spark of hope that, everything would be ok.

A subarashīdesu performance of a superb story.

Mid nineties Japan Bashing

I got through about half of this book and I was curious about how it would resolve itself. However, the Japan bashing got to be too much for me to take. Granted that it was written in the mid nineties and things might have been different then but for the mid 2010s it was just toooo much

Dated, but good writing

Michael Crichton is a fantastic writer, and this story was very informative for its time. Decades later, the landscape between Japan and America has drastically changed, so it is not as relevant. Still, some Japanese traditions in this novel still exist and the entertainment value is still fun

. It was almost like a trip back to the 1980's.

Dated and ethnocentric, at least, but good story

Interesting read reflecting a time past and world view gone. Excessive exposition and no small bias, but the story is otherwise entertaining and the narrator is excellent.

Good but not great.

The movie expectations hurt it for me. Sean Connery hard to beat. As this is original, pretty good.