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Author	John Lange
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	1972
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	225
ISBN	0394479874
OCLC Number	262457
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Classification	PS3553.R48 B56 1972
Preceded by	Dealing

Binary is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton in 1972 under the pen-name John Lange. 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.

v • d • e Works by Michael Crichton

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) · Pirate Latitudes (2009) · Untitled (2010)

Novels written under pseudonyms	Odds On (1966) · Scratch One (1967) · Easy Go (1968) · A Case of Need (1968) · Zero Cool (1969) · The Venom Business (1969) · Drug of Choice (1970) · Dealing (1970) · Grave Descend (1970) · Binary (1972)

Non-fiction	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 (1972) · The Terminal Man (1974) · The First Great Train Robbery (1979) · Rising Sun (1993) · Jurassic Park (1993) · Disclosure (1994) · Congo (1995) · The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) · Sphere (1998) · The 13th Warrior (1999) · Timeline (2003) · The Andromeda Strain (2008)

Film writer or director	Pursuit (1972) · Westworld (1973) · Coma (1978) · The First Great Train Robbery (1979) · Looker (1981) · Runaway (1984) · Physical Evidence (1989) · Jurassic Park (1993) · Rising Sun (1993) · Twister (1996)

TV series	Beyond Westworld (1980) · ER (1994-2009)

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