Zero Cool

At the Yolo County Library recently I came across a 1969 title from Michael Crichton called “Zero Cool.”

 

 

Some interesting facts about Michael Crichton…

 

1. He was 6’9″.
2. He died at age 66 of lymphoma.
3. He got an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
4. He left medicine shortly thereafter to write full time.
5. His first bestseller was The Andromeda Strain. He went on to collaborrate with Steven Spielberg on the Jurrasic Park movies. He also originated TV’s medical drama “ER.”
6. Before all that, he financed his medical education by writing mysteries and thrillers under a pseudonym. He even won an Edgar Award, but never told the docs at Harvard when he went down to New York to accept it.

 

“Zero Cool” is a thriller about a newly minted physician who goes to Spain to present a paper at a medical conference, but ends up getting tangled in a web of international intrigue over stolen gemstones hidden – at autopsy – inside the thoracic cavity of a dead man. Not your typical thriller plotline, but you can see how Crichton’s personal history worms its way into his fiction.

 

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With all that in mind, I was delighted to recieve the following from a family member who saved one of my old dot-matrix-printed missives from 1991, the year our second child was born. It came with the comment “You do have a way with words.  🙂  ”  Thanks, Sue!

 

 

Bonus T-rex cartoon.