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Rising Sun

A Novel

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Rising Sun

By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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A riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests.

On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles - the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate - a grand opening celebration is in full swing.

On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the corpse of a beautiful young woman is discovered.

The investigation immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue, a no-holds-barred conflict in which control of a vital American technology is the fiercely coveted prize - and in which the Japanese saying "business is war" takes on a terrifying reality.

Rising Sun was made into a film, starring Sean Connery.

©1992 CrichtonSun LLC (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Psychological Suspense Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Thriller Exciting Business

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Editor reviews

"As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be." - The New York Times Book Review

Critic reviews

"A grand maze of plot twists... Crichton's gift for spinning a timely yarn is going to be enough, once again, to serve a current tenant of the bestseller list with an eviction notice." - New York Daily News
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Too much MAGA morality that’s not been bourne out by time. The story and the narrative suffered for all the speech making that was completely unnecessary and very distracting if not totally false.

Anti Japanese

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Loved this audiobook my first outing with MC and the narrator was fantastic also. If you are in a slump just download it and start

Throughly enjoyable

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Superb narration of a terrific book, couldn't put it down as it were. Looking forward to the next Crichton book.

Great read!

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A good book, good and interesting story. An interesting view on business practices, not much has changed there.

Very entertaining

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With this book you need to replace “Japan” with “China” and “Japanese” with “Chinese” to make it relevant with the current times, it’s a amazing insight on Japans panicle and I think shortly after the book the country went into decline, apart from certain industries like cars & video games which is a shame because all Japanese products are amazing compared to to the cheap Chinese crap we get now a days, not sure why it went into decline anyway it’s a great insight into the past on how Japan almost took over or how people felt that, I have seen the film but I was very young and can’t recall it so much, really looking forward to watching the film again, this book is well researched, enjoy

Great book from Crichton

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A good book made excellent by the narrator, really enjoyed the interesting story. The moralisation on Japan is an opinion I guess now you would substitute China

Really excellent narrator and good book

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Well structured but all characters seem to launch into polemic. I felt that the mystery aspects were well handled but the anti Japanese elements intruded and spoiled the flow.

Strangely pandering to MAGA tastes

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Very much enjoyed this. Solid narrator, compact and fast-paced story; finished it in no time.

It flew by

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It was entertaining- I felt the concept/references were dated but I was still able to enjoy this if you accept it is in the 80/90s.
Would recommend.

Well narrated and interesting story

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only negative is the ridiculous chapters of 4 hours each. one fumble and your searching an age.

love the fil. love the book. Great voice

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