Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man (USA 2014)

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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation.

Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blackouts when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain's pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda...

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man. A Novel. Vintage Books, ISBN: 9780804171298 (March, 2014), 247 p., $15.95.

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man (USA 2009)

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Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people. Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called Stage Three. During this highly specialized experimental surgery, electrodes will be place in the patient's brain, sending monitored, soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons. Though the operation is a success, there is an unforseen development. Benson learns how to control the pulses and is increasing their frequency. He escapes -- a homicidal maniac loose in the city -- and nothing will stop his murderous rampages or impede his deadly agenda...

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man. Harper, ISBN: 9780061782671 (April, 2009), 352 p., $9.99.

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man (USA 2003)

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Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people.

Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called Stage Three. During this highly specialized experimental surgery, electrodes will be place in the patient's brain, sending monitored, soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons.

Though the operation is a success, there is an unforseen development. Benson learns how to control the pulses and is increasing their frequency. He escapes -- a homicidal maniac loose in the city -- and nothing will stop his murderous rampages or impede his deadly agenda...

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man. Avon Books, ISBN: 0060092572 (October, 2003), 266 p., $7.99.

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man (UK 1996)

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The classic thriller and "New York Times" bestseller is reissued with a new look.
Prone to violent seizures, Harry Benson undergoes an experimental procedure that implants electrodes in his brain, sending soothing pulses to the brain's pleasure canyon. However, Harry learns how to control the pulses and increase their frequency. Harry then escapes -- a homicidal maniac loose in the city -- and nothing will stop his murderous rampage.

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man. Avon Books, ISBN: 0099442116 (July, 1996), 268 p., £4.99.

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man (USA 1988)

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Harry Benson suffers from seizures. So violent that he requires a police guard when entering a Los Angeles hospital for treatment.

Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure known as a stage three. During this highly specialized experimental surgery, electrodes, placed deep in Beson's brain, send monitored, soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons.

The operation is a success - until Benson discovers how to get the pulses with increasing frequency. Then he escapes from the hospital and lapses into murderous rampages - becoming a homicidal maniac with a deadly agenda...

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345354621 (August, 1988), 268 p., $4.50 (?).

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man (USA 1972)

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In his first novel since The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton once again combines documentary verisimilitude with hairraising suspense to open up for the reader a new area of moder science: surgical-electronic mind control. The man "in the hands of science" -- the Terminal Man -- is Harry Benson. He is a violent paranoid who has already twice attempted to kill. Against the profound opposition of his psychiatrist, a team of surgeons proposes to connect his brain to a computer that will regulate his behavior. From the conflict among the doctors, to the actual operation itself -- during which forty wires are attached to forty points in Benson's brain -- to the functioning of the computers, to the terrifying results when Benson escapes from the hospital, the tension rises as the reader becomes a close-up witness to an experiment just short of the ultimate computer control of a human being. Psychosurgery of the kind Crichton describes is already taking place under established medical auspices -- a new form of behavior control, that has become a key scientific and moral issue in our time. Crichton takes it out of the realm of the abstract, and makes im- mediate its workings, its dangers, and its implications, in a novel that provides urgent information and, at the same time, superb entertainment.

Michael Crichton: The Terminal Man. Alfred A. Knop, ISBN: 0394447689 (May, 1972), 247 p., $6.95.