Book info

• Title Drug of Choice
• Author Michael Crichton
• Year 1970
• Genre Thriller

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true. What he discovers there will be the most shocking discovery of his life, on an island paradise where nothing is as it seems.

Thoughts

Another of Michael Crichton’s books that was written before he was the thriller writer we know and love, this one follows a doctor who gets involved in a pharmaceutical horror of surprisingly epic proportions. I’m not totally sure of the ending here, or if there was a point trying to be made, but I really enjoyed it up until then. It was so well written, engaging and with fascinating ideas. The hotel made up almost entirely of drugs and the art of suggestion is so intriguing. Awful but captivating in equal measure!

Rating: 3 / 5