10 Top crime books like The Venom Business by Michael Crichton, John Lange

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The Venom Business

By: Michael Crichton , John Lange

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

As an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles Raynaud is acc…

If you liked the crime plot in The Venom Business by Michael Crichton, John Lange , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Terminal Man

By: Michael Crichton

3.41

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's The Terminal Man book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only periphe…"

-Michael Crichton, The Terminal Man

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2. Disclosure

By: Michael Crichton

3.79

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman b… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Disclosure book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Power is neither male or female."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

"Friendships are nice. So is competence."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

"Sometimes women scare the hell out of me."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

"The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

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3. Congo

By: Michael Crichton

3.62

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition o… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Congo book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"No one escapes from life alive."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch wi…"

-Michael Crichton, Congo

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4. Eaters of the Dead

By: Michael Crichton

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • adventure
"تتوقف الأشياء الغربية عن أن تكون كذلك بفعل التكرار"

-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead

"ليس هناك والله خوف أعظم نت خوف الانسان حين لا يعرف السبب"

-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead

"...thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition."

-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead

"يجب أن يكون الانسان حكيما باعتدال ولكن ليس مفرط الحكمة حتى لا يعرف قدره مسبقا"

-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead

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5. The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

By: Michael Crichton

3.91

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: cu… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1) book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves."

-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

"A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ign…"

-Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)

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6. A Case of Need

By: Michael Crichton , Jeffery Hudson

3.75

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Written as Jeffery Hudson in 1968. A Case of Need is Michael Crichton's award-winning debut novel,… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's A Case of Need book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Dealing, or The Berkeley-To-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

By: Michael Crichton , Michael Douglas , Douglas Crichton

3.22

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

To rescue his girlfriend, a weed dealer scraps for a score The suitcase looks like a standard we… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Dealing, or The Berkeley-To-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. Micro

By: Michael Crichton , Richard Preston

3.43

Format: 344 pages, ebook

In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Micro book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • adventure
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9. Turn on the Heat

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's Turn on the Heat book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery
  • crime
  • pulp
  • fiction
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10. Rising Sun

By: Michael Crichton

3.65

Format: 399 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a novel set within the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations, business moguls compete fo… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Rising Sun book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Next

By: Michael Crichton

3.53

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Next book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time."

-Michael Crichton, Next

"Only assholes put a nickname on their business card."

-Michael Crichton, Next

"Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other."

-Michael Crichton, Next

"Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego."

-Michael Crichton, Next

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12. Airframe

By: Michael Crichton

3.74

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Airframe book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it ev…"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

"I understand,' Marder said. 'But a claim filed in a court has limited publicity. Newsline is going to present these crazy claims to forty million viewers. And at the same time, they'll automatically …"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

"There's only one more thing I can tell you, Katherine. You work in a complex business. If you try to explain that complexity to Martin, you'll be frustrated. You’ll feel he isn't interested. He'll pr…"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

"What she was looking for was a way to shape the story so that it unfolded now, in a pattern that the viewer could follow. The best frames engaged the viewer by presenting the story as conflict betwee…"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

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13. Curse of the Bane (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #2)

By: Joseph Delaney , Patrick Arrasmith

3.62

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dar… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Delaney's Curse of the Bane (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #2) book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • fiction
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14. The Venom Business

By: Michael Crichton , John Lange

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

As an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles Raynaud is acc… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's The Venom Business book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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15. State of Fear

By: Michael Crichton

3.70

Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's State of Fear book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"You can't get decent Mexican food in DC."

-Michael Crichton, State of Fear

"Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney."

-Michael Crichton, State of Fear

"False fears are a plague, a modern plague!"

-Michael Crichton, State of Fear

"Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously."

-Michael Crichton, State of Fear

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16. Timeline

By: Michael Crichton

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-fou… read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Timeline book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • adventure
"In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the pa…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true lo…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A …"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired of movies? We already know the answer—they go into participatory activities…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

17. Sphere

By: Michael Crichton

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the … read more

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18. Umney's Last Case

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Penguin 60s book contains a short story taken from Nightmares And Dreamscapes. read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Umney's Last Case book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

19. The Great Train Robbery

By: Michael Crichton

4.33

Format: 226 pages,

"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIE… read more

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20. Five Patients

By: Michael Crichton

4.33

Format: 226 pages,

ERhas become the most successful television series in the world since Charlie's Angels. Michael Cri… read more

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21. Touch

By: Elmore Leonard

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

Touchis sensational suspense from the master of crime fiction, New York Times bestselling author El… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Touch book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

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22. Eruption

By: Michael Crichton

3.91

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A history-making once-in-a-century volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crichton's Eruption book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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23. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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24. Tom Clancy Act of Defiance

By: Brian Andrews

4.65

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

When a Russian superweapon is let loose under the waves, it's up to President Jack Ryan to find a c… read more

Similar categories in Brian Andrews's Tom Clancy Act of Defiance book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime) by Daniel Kraus

25. Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime)

By: Daniel Kraus

3.42

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge fo… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime) book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery
  • crime
  • pulp
  • fiction
Cover of Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7) by Jack Carr

26. Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)

By: Jack Carr

4.54

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbe… read more

Similar categories in Jack Carr's Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7) book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of Manner of Death (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #14) by Robin Cook

27. Manner of Death (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #14)

By: Robin Cook

3.97

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

In the new fast-paced medical thriller from bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and L… read more

Similar categories in Robin Cook's Manner of Death (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #14) book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Silent Chase: A Chase Fulton Novel (Chase Fulton Novels Book 26) by Cap Daniels

28. The Silent Chase: A Chase Fulton Novel (Chase Fulton Novels Book 26)

By: Cap Daniels

4.70

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

When a mysterious figure from the past confronts American covert operative Chase Fulton on the stre… read more

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29. Are Snakes Necessary?

By: Brian De Palma

3.22

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should’ve kn… read more

Similar categories in Brian De Palma's Are Snakes Necessary? book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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30. The Venom Business

By: Michael Crichton

3.80

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER Charles Raynaud has found the perfect cover for his smu… read more

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31. The Gift

By: Alison Gaylin

3.66

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s a desperate mother to do when her child suddenly disappears? Anything it takes to keep the f… read more

Similar categories in Alison Gaylin's The Gift book and Michael Crichton's The Venom Business

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

24 best-selling fiction books like The Venom Business by Michael Crichton, John Lange

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The Terminal Man

Michael Crichton

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Disclosure

Michael Crichton

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Congo

Michael Crichton

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Eaters of the Dead

Michael Crichton

3.70

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21 Best fiction books like Manner of Death (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #14) by Robin Cook

Transform Your Habits

Night Shift

Stephen King , John D. MacDonald

4.04

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Eruption

Michael Crichton

3.91

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The Ghost Orchid (Alex Delaware, #39)

Jonathan Kellerman

4.21

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Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)

John Sandford

4.45

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