Odds on

The very first novel by Michael Crichton, the legendary creator of Jurassic Park and ER

Steven Jencks has planned the perfect crime. Working with two skilled associates, he will hit the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain, and then walk away with the haul of a lifetime. As the ultimate pro, Jencks has even run his plan through a complex computer simulation to account for every possible variable ...

Except three.

Their names are Annette, Cynthia, and Jenny. And no computer could ever simulate what these three femmes fatales have up their sleeves.

With a new introduction by Sherri Crichton

"Edoardo Ballerini rises to the challenge of narrating Michael Crichton's first-ever novel...Ballerini seamlessly delivers a variety of accents, including British, American, and Spanish, to create a cast of larger-than-life characters. His dialogue and his characterizations of the female protagonists, young and old, are particularly notable. Also, his spot-on timing helps keep the plot moving through various red herrings and twists...Ballerini's strong narration highlights [the story's] strengths."

Michael Crichton (1942-2008) is one of the most prolific bestselling authors of all time with over 200 million copies sold worldwide, in forty languages, including Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sphere, Next, Prey, Disclosure, Eaters of the Dead, and Congo. His books have been adapted into fifteen films, most notably Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg which launched one of the highest-grossing entertainment franchises of all time. A remarkable and versatile talent, Crichton wrote and directed several films including Westworld, The Great Train Robbery (based on his novel), and Coma and created the television series ER. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. After writing novels under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffery Hudson while he was still a medical student, his first bestseller as Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain, was adapted into a classic film.

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