Binary (novel)

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Binary is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton in 1972. The villain is a middle-class small businessman who decides to assassinate the President of the United States. He spends his life savings to carry out the theft of an army shipment of the two precursor chemicals that form a deadly nerve agent.

The nerve agent ZN was intended to be detonated in Downtown San Diego, corresponding with the arrival of the President to attend a Republican party conference taking place there.

The Nerve Agent was contained inside two alacran (a combustible plastic) tanks, and plastic explosive was placed in between, so that when the explosion occurred, the two binary gases would form ZN.

The novel was originally published under the pen-name John Lange.

[edit] See also

Pursuit (1972) a TV movie.

v • d • e Michael Crichton

Bibliography

Novels	The Andromeda Strain (1969) • The Terminal Man (1972) • The Great Train Robbery (1975) • Eaters of the Dead (1976) • Congo (1980) • Sphere (1987) • Jurassic Park (1990) • Rising Sun (1992) • Disclosure (1994) • The Lost World (1995) • Airframe (1996) • Timeline (1999) • Prey (2002) • State of Fear (2004) • Next (2006)

Novels written under pseudonyms	Odds On (1966) • Scratch One (1967) • Easy Go (1968) • A Case of Need (1968) • The Venom Business (1969) • Zero Cool (1969) • Grave Descend (1970) • Drug of Choice (1970) • Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1970) • Binary (1972)

Nonfiction	Five Patients (1970) • Jasper Johns (1977) • Electronic Life (1983) • Travels (1988)

Film adaptations	The Andromeda Strain (1971) • Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972) • The Carey Treatment (A Case of Need) (1972) • The Terminal Man (1974) • Rising Sun (1993) • Jurassic Park (1993) • Disclosure (1994) • Congo (1995) • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) • Sphere (1998) • The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead) (1999) • Timeline (2003) • The Andromeda Strain (2008)

Film writer and director	Pursuit (1972) • Westworld (1973) • Coma (1978) • The First Great Train Robbery (1979) • Looker (1981) • Runaway (1984) • Physical Evidence (1989) • ER (1994) • Twister (1996)