Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Binary (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER, a classic techno thriller brimming with high-stakes action and heart-pounding suspense
In an age of political unrest, one man aims to bring the government to its knees -- and there's only one agent who can stop him.

Wealthy political radical John Wright has taken aim at the US government, believing that only he can make things right. State Department Agent John Graves has been watching Wright for months, studying him, gathering intel, trying to determine his next move before he makes it.

Now, after hacking a government computer for secret files and stealing a shipment of VZ nerve gas, a binary agent, Wright has gathered everything he needs to unleash mass destruction on a million people -- including the US president. As the clock winds down, Wright and Agent Graves play a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with the fate of the government and a million innocent people hanging in the balance.

With a new introduction by Sherri Crichton

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Binary. Blackstone Publishing, ISBN: 9798200987221 (June, 2023), 237 p., Hardcover $24.99, eBook $1.99.

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Binary (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
A million people would die - unless he could enter the madman's mind...
Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction - and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is.

When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together - but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people... including the President of the United States?

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Binary. Titan Books / Hard Case Crime, ISBN: 9781783291250 (October, 2013), 237 p., £7.99, $9.95.

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Binary (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
An agent races to stop a chemical attack in this thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park.
His name is John Wright, and he's the most dangerous man in the United States. A millionaire radical with a deep hatred for everything America stands for, he has concocted a scheme that will shatter the very foundation of our democracy -- and he's just crazy enough to pull it off. The only man who can stop him is John Graves, an embittered federal agent whose mission in life is to destroy Wright. He'll get his chance -- or America will burn.

A train races across the Utah desert, carrying a shipment of the deadliest nerve gas known to man. Seven mobsters stop the train, steal the gas, and hand it over to Wright. His target? The Republican National Convention in San Diego, where unleashing the gas will kill one million honest citizens, including the US president. Graves has just one shot to stop Wright -- and for the sake of democracy, he'd better not miss.

From "the master of the sci-tech thriller," this is a terrifying high-speed novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end (Booklist)

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Michael Crichton including rare images from the author's estate.

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Binary. A Novel. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781453299289 (July, 2013), eBook, 7 MB (ca. 172 p.), $8.99.

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Binary (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
On a night in August 1972 in Utah, seven men, all with known links to the American underworld, hijack a Department of Transport train. They have been paid by an unknown source to steal two canisters of a highly effective insecticide, one black and one yellow. Not even these highly trained men know why they have stolen the insecticide and for what sinister purpose it will be used. They have beei chosen because they will not ask questions...

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Intelligence Agent John Graves is called in to investigate an unknown source that is tapping into highly secret files stored on the National Defence computer. Graves soon realises that there is a vital link between the mysterious computer tapper and the leader of an insane right wing organisation, a man with ideas of getting rid of the President and making America great again.

Graves uncovers a plot so evil that it will push his own intelligence and sanity to the limits, and time is beginning to tick away... Soon it seems that the city of San Diego will be poisoned by a nerve gas so deadly that it takes only minutes to kill... and Graves finds himself in a race against the clock, a race so important, that if he loses, it will result in the death of thousands of innocent lives...

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Binary. Arrow, ISBN: 0099319616 (September, 1993), 169 p., £4.99.

John Lange: Binary (UK 1974)

From the Publisher:
'Crichton strikes again with new gadgetry and well-engineered surprises' Guardian
BINARY
'THIS IS THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN BROUGHT DOWN TO EARTH AND THIS THRILLER HAS THE SAME BUILT-IN EXCITEMENT OF THAT CHEMICAL CLIFF-HANGER!' EVENING STANDARD

A nerve-stretching battle of wits between an ultra-right-wing millionaire, as brilliant as he is deranged, who plans to destroy an entire city, and John Graves, Federal Agent. Zero hour for overkill is rush hour...

'Ingenious, non-stop suspense' TIME MAGAZINE
JOHN LANGE alias MICHAEL CRICHTON, world-famout author of The Terminal Man, 'is unleashing an entertainment epidemic'

John Lange: Binary. A Novel. Pan, ISBN: 0330237446 (January, 1974), 189 p., p50 (?).

John Lange: Binary (USA 1973)

From the Publisher:
A duel between two relentless men... A deadly nerve gas... and the lives of millions hanging in the balance! Here is a novel with the same shattering suspense of The Andromeda Strain and The Terminal Man

The new thriller by John Lange
Binary is the pulse-stopping suspense novel of a brilliant, obessed millionaire determined to exterminate the entire populaion of the large coastal city where the Republican National convention is being held -- and the equally brilliant government gent who must stop him... with only seconds left!

"An exciting cientific thriller... ingenious, non-stop suspense." -- Publishers Weekly

John Lange: Binary. Bantam Books 07613 (June, 1973), 172 p., $1.25.

John Lange: Binary (USA 1972)

From the Publisher:
JOHN LANGE is a pseudonym for one of America's most successful young writers. In Binary he has written a novel of pure suspense -- a duel to the death (of millions of people) between a brilliant and mad right-wing millionaire with a plan to exterminate all of San Diego at the time of the Republican Convention, and a cool, tough government agent who in many disturbing ways is his alter ego.

From the theft of a half-ton of deadly poison gas out of a poorly guarded government train to the novel's climax when, with seconds to go, the hero struggles to comprehend the ultimate workings of his adversary's superb but deranged mind, Binary is filled with action, tension, and excitement.

John Lange: Binary. A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0394479874 (March, 1972), 213 p., $5.95.

John Lange: Binary (UK 1972)

From the Publisher:
"I can see you're upset," Wright said. "And you haven't asked me some rather obvious questions. One is, when will the gas go off?"

John Wright, brilliant, mad millionaire, has stolen two canisters of deadly nerve gas and programmed them to destroy the Republican Convention.

"The answer is five p.m. The gas will go off then. It will have blanketed the city with a good saturation by the peak of the rush hour."

Binary: Two interacting elements; two canisters of gas and the struggle of two minds as the hours run out. Almost shaking with fury, the Government agent John Graves stares at Wright. But Wright understands the workings of the agent's mind and, at every twist of the puzzle, knows how his opponent will react.

"John Lange" is the pseudonym for one of America's most successful young writers. In Binary he has written a novel of pure suspense, filled with action, tension and excitement.

John Lange: Binary. A Novel. William Heinemann, ISBN: 0434402559 (January, 1972), 213 p., £2.10.