crime was brilliantly conceived. It was masterminded by a modern computer. But then they forgot the biggest risk of all—the women, and sex.

Structure and format

As in many other Crichton novels the chapters are named by date as in a diary, rather than by number or other content. In this particular novel the chapters reflect the total time span, the ticking clock, of the plot as a whole. The fifteen chapters begin with Saturday, June Fourteenth, and end with Afternoon, June Twenty-Second.

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