Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. This lot of paperbacks by "the father of the techno thriller" includes his very first under his own name, "The Andromeda Strain." Other titles are: The 13th Warrior The Terminal Man Sphere Rising Sun A Case of Need Timeline Pirate Latitudes Cross-posted.