I was so sad when Michael Crichton died. I loved his novels, even the ones that weren’t so great (ahem…Timeline) and of course, he’s responsible for two of my favorite things to ever hit the screen: ER and Twister. So I was delighted to discover that he had a writing career prior to becoming Michael Crichton, under the pen-name John Lange. Unfortunately, the first (and probably only) book I’ve read of the 8 written under the Lange name kind of…sucked. Scratch One begins with a series of assassinations across Europe as a […]