State of Fear

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

The undisputed master of the techno-thriller has written his most riveting, and entertaining, book yet.

Once again Michael Crichton gives us his trademark combination of pause-resistant suspense, cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research. State of Fear is a superb blend of edge-of-your-seat suspense and thought provoking commentary on how information is manipulated in the modern world. From the streets of Paris, to the glaciers of Antarctica, to the exotic and dangerous Solomon Islands, State of Fear takes the listener on a rollercoaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear.

©2004 Michael Crichton (P)2004 Harper Audio

Critic reviews

" State of Fear is one of Crichton's best because it's as hard to pigeonhole as greenhouse gas but certainly heats up the room." ( Entertainment Weekly)
"Michael Crichton's new, can't-put-it-down novel is a first-of-a-kind thriller - a fast-paced adventure based on the notion that a current widespread fear is baseless." ( Forbes)

The theory of global warning

It is nice reading about facts instead of just hearing about peoples histrionics on subjects that they know very little about. Into fact, they don’t want to hear anything that they might disagree with. Hi there, liberals.

As pertinent as ever

This book made all kinds of compelling points. The reader did a great job in conveying the Story.

I highly recommend this book

outstanding book. I now know why I never heard it

I have never listened to a book and then immediately restarted it again. it's very good. it's a shame no one will ever make it into a movie. This might be the best Michael Crichton book.

A must read for anyone concerned about the environment

Whether a believer or skeptic of global warming or environmental issues, this is an excellent book. Well researched and performed. Plenty of suspense. Be sure to listen to the entire book, including the author's notes at the end. 5 stars.

A completely different take on the subject

I was blown away by this book. The story starts out kind of slow and in the first hour or two I almost went on to something else several times. But if you stick with it you will be pleased. By the time I hit hour seven and eight I was staying up late at night listening to it, and paying for it the next morning.

I now need to go back through the book and start reviewing the information that is provided and see if the data is correct. There is allot of scientific data presented and I am not sure if it is true or just sentences in a fiction novel but I will be looking up the data for myself. But it does seem to make sense and it does seem to connect allot of the dots on these environmental groups.

But that aside the book is well worth the investment of time and money and I will be recommending it to all my friends.

A number of previous people reviewing the book noted strange sounds the narrator makes and after reading those reviews I did begin to notice it. I am not sure how all these strange stomach and lip smacking noises got through the edit process but it would be really nice if the Audible team or someone took the time to clean them up and upload new copies of the audio to the site. But honestly these do not detract from the story and other then that I thought the narrator did a great job.

highly recommended

great pace for a book of this length. I liked the characterization. the way the author didn't quite make anybody the star of the show made the subject the star without sacrificing entertainment value.

Love this book

The discussions in this book should be required reading for anyone wishing to talk about global warming. Chrichton makes a great story around real information and uses the events to have meaningful discussion about how we use and interpret data.

just a lot of things

several things turned me off on this book.
1) the narrator was mechanical and monotonous to say the least. fell way short on presenting emotions, accents, emphasis, characterization, diction, etc.
2) one of the main characters was written almost to the point where I believed him to purposely be dislikable. he is a lawyer and yet seems very uneducated and is generally bumbling, scared, crumbles under pressure wuss.
3) the description of this book tells you that is a fast-paced, page-turning, worldwide story full of Adventure and suspense but really doesn't touch on what the actual story is about. I found that it took about 3/4 of the book until I started hearing the story as it was described. The rest was a big lead up with poor character development, forced love triangles, and parts are the story that just seemed rushed. I'm a big fan of crichton's just didn't find this one as great as his other works until the end.

Fantastic read.

I've read the book twice and listened to the audiobook three times and love it.

Well Written and Narated!

Great Novel on a very worthy topic. Narated well and the topic keeps you wondering what's next. Loved it!