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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-10034553901X
ISBN-139780345539014
eBay Product ID (ePID)21038306753
Product Key Features
Book TitleTimeline : a Novel
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / General, Historical, Action & Adventure
Publication Year2013
GenreFiction
AuthorMichael Crichton
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight9.4 Oz
Item Length7.4 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"COMPULSIVE READING . . . BRILLIANTLY IMAGINED." Los Angeles Times "THE PRESENT AND THE LONG-AGO PAST COLLIDE. . . . [as] three young historians whisk themselves back to fourteenth-century feudal France to rescue a friendand engulf themselves in all manner of mind-blowing intrigue." Chicago Sun-Times "[A] BIG ROLLICKING BOOK." The Wall Street Journal "EXCITING . . . CLASSIC ADVENTURE . . . [A] SWASHBUCKLING NOVEL . . . CRICHTON DELIVERS." USA Today "EXCITING . . . CLASSIC ADVENTURE . . . [A] SWASHBUCKLING NOVEL . . . CRICHTON DELIVERS." USA Today
SynopsisIn this thriller from the author of Jurassic Park, Sphere , and Congo, a group of young scientists travel back in time to medieval France on a daring rescue mission that becomes a struggle to stay alive. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined."-- Los Angeles Times In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival--six hundred years ago. "Exciting . . . classic adventure . . . [a] swashbuckling novel . . . Crichton delivers."-- USA Today "More screams per page . . . than Jurassic Park and The Lost World combined . . . The pace will leave many breathlessly grasping for oxygen masks."-- The San Diego Union-Tribune "One of his best . . . [a] nonstop roller coaster of a novel."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer, In this thriller from the author of Jurassic Park, Sphere , and Congo, a group of young scientists travel back in time to medieval France on a daring rescue mission that becomes a struggle to stay alive. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined."-- Los Angeles Times In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival--six hundred years ago. "Exciting . . . classic adventure . . . a] swashbuckling novel . . . Crichton delivers."-- USA Today "More screams per page . . . than Jurassic Park and The Lost World combined . . . The pace will leave many breathlessly grasping for oxygen masks."-- The San Diego Union-Tribune "One of his best . . . a] nonstop roller coaster of a novel."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer