Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Scratch One (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER
A pulp-fiction thrill ride through a deadly case of mistaken identity

Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he's the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It's the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.

A ruthless terrorist organization called the Associates is carrying out assassinations from Egypt to Denmark. To stop them, the CIA orders their own super assassin -- a man who bears a striking resemblance to Roger Carr -- to intercept the Associates in France. The CIA assassin never shows up, but the clueless counselor does, and now he finds himself on the run from some of the world's deadliest terrorists.

With a new introduction by Sherri Crichton

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Scratch One. Blackstone Publishing, ISBN: 9798200987580 (December, 2023), 268 p., Hardcover $24.99, eBook $9.99.

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Scratch One (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
Murder stalks the French Riviera
To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East, a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt, Portugal, Denmark, and France. In response, the US sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down. But when the agent is delayed in transit, lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him.

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Scratch One. Titan Books / Hard Case Crime, ISBN: 9781783291199 (October, 2013), 268 p., $9.95.

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Scratch One (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
Mistaken for a secret agent, a hapless lawyer scrambles to stay alive
An arms dealer in Copenhagen dies after sipping a poisoned martini. An American diplomat in Lisbon is shot in the back of the head. A Frenchman survives being pushed in front of a train, only to be murdered in his hospital bed. Though seemingly unconnected, these events are part of an international conspiracy that could spell death for Roger Carr.

Carr is a lawyer, but he has no love for Lady Justice. A dilettante playboy sent to France on a cushy assignment, he lands himself right in the middle of an international arms deal. Both sides of the conflict have mistaken him for an agent, and the secret service interventions of a dozen countries will do anything to secure him -- dead or alive.

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

Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Scratch One. A Novel. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781453299241 (July, 2013), eBook, 7 MB (ca. 217 p.), $7.99.

John Lange: Scratch One (USA 1974)

From the Publisher:
An innocent tourist... trapped in a cruel game between a private death-squad and the CIA! The Ultra-Thrilling Novel With All The Electric Suspense of The Terminal Man and Binary by John Lange

A simple case of mistaken identity
... plunged Roger Carr into a seething scramble for a vital arms shipment. He was trapped in in squeeze play involving a sadistic mastermind, a primitive killer, an exotic hooker and the CIA. And they all agreed on one matter. The sooner Carr was eliminated, the faster they could all go back to the original game plan...

John Lange: Scratch One. A supercharged suspense-novel in the electrifying tradition of The Terminal Man and Binary. Bantam No. Q7884 (February, 1974), 217 p., $1.25.

John Lange: Scratch One (USA ca. 1970)

From the Publisher:
Fast cars, women, double-dealing -- a young American finds that speed can kill on the bloody Côte d'Azur

TOURIST TRAP Roger Carr was not a typical tourist. He was young, handsome, rich, and phenomenally successful with women, and the Riviera was his favorite playground.

But the trap wasn't ordinary either. It was designed by a brilliant, sadistic French surgeon, manned by a supremely efficient German killer, and set to destroy Carr from the moment he arrived in Nice.

Unfortunately for Carr, the bait was the one thing he could not resist. Her name was Anne, and she was poison -- but in such a tempting package...

John Lange: Scratch One. NAL / Signet T4353, 3rd Printing ca. 1970, 192 p., ¢75.

John Lange: Scratch One (USA 1967)

From the Publisher:
An invitation to sex is a come-on for murder - that's what a young American lawyer discovers when he vacations on the Riviera

Was he or wasn't he? Only the CIA knew for sure
When Carr walked off the plane at Orly, both sides - ours and theirs - were waiting for him. The American Consul thought he was Morgan, the secret agent he was told to expect. So did the opposition - and Morgan was next on their list for extermination.

SCRATCH ONE
the hot new caper by JOHN LANGE, author of ODDS ON

SCRATCH ONE
a highly combustible thriller about murder and espionage that ignates at a TOUCH OF SEX.

John Lange: Scratch One. NAL / Signet P3238, September 1967, 192 p., ¢60.