Title: Micro
Author: Michael Crichton & Richard Preston
Published Year: 2011
Pages: 429
Genre: Fiction
Here is another does of Crichton after death. Despite Crichton passing away a few years ago, new novels of his are alive and well. This is the second one that bares his name that has been released after his death. The difference between this one and Pirate Latitudes is that this manuscript was left unfinished at the time of Crichton's death. This is where Richard Preston comes in. Even though I have finished this book, I still do not know who this Richard Preston person is, except that he finished Crichton's unfinished manuscript. I will state one thing, he should have left a good thing alone. I have become a bigger Crichton fan in the last year and this book left me disappointed. If you have ever read Crichton's books before, you will be able to tell within the novel when the shift of authors takes place. If you have never read a Crichton book before and want to, please do not start with this one, it is not a true Crichton book.
In this book, there is yet another high tech company at the center of a questionable disappearance of one of its employees. This employee's younger brother comes to the island of Hawaii to think about joining this same high tech company only to discover that the day of his arrival, his brother mysteriously disappeared while out on his boat. He thinks that there is more going on since he has evidence that his brother knew something was happening at the time his boat hit the rocky shores of Hawaii. Tiny aircrafts and breaking down of molecules also share space in this book.
I do not recommend this book, and for myself, I could anticipate what was going to happen before the events actually took place. I had to summon up my inner strength of not wanting to leave this book unfinished to complete the whole book. Please do not waste your time on this.
