New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "In his first novel since The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton once again combines documentary verisimilitude with hair-raising suspense to open up for the reader a new area of modern 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..... More