Eruption
Author: Michael Crichton, James Patterson
Release: June 3, 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN-10: 0316565075
ISBN-13: 978-0316565073
Main Character(s): John “Mac” MacGregor, Rachel Sherrill, Colonel James Briggs, Jenny Kimura, Rebecca Cruz, J.P. Brett, Oliver Cutler, Leah Cutler, Lono Akani
Synopsis: “A history-making eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawai’i. And the U.S. Military has made a terrible mistake that could mean the end of life as we know it.”
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Eruption did not ignite a fire in my Crichton-loving heart
Quotes and Lines
“Michael Crichton, creator of Jurassic Park, ER, Twister, and Westworld, had a passion project he’d been pursuing for years ahead of his untimely passing in 2008. Knowing how special it was, his wife, Sherri Crichton, held back his notes and the partial manuscript until she found the right author to complete it: James Patterson, the world’s most popular storyteller.”
Briggs cleared his throat. “Listen,” he said, “there’s plenty of blame to go around. Blame the army. Blame the Cold War. Blame your congressperson for not appropriating the money. Blame Hawai’i for protecting the tourist trade. Blame the tree-huggers for blocking the construction of dump sites forty years ago when we could still have moved this stuff out. Blame all the people who looked at one piece of the puzzle and not the whole problem. We’ve inherited this mess from the 1950s, with plenty of help from the ‘70s and ‘80s. The whole thing has been a slow moving train wreck.”
“If you torture data long enough,” Mac said, “you can make it tell you whatever you want it to. What you guys are giving me is a false hard.”