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Books with title The Terminal Man

  • The Terminal Man

    Michael Crichton, Luke Daniels, Brilliance Audio

    Audible Audiobook (Brilliance Audio, Sept. 1, 2015)
    From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation. Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blacks out when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain's pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda....
  • The Terminal Man

    Michael Crichton

    Paperback (Vintage, March 11, 2014)
    From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation. Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blackouts when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain’s pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda. . .
  • Terminal

    Michaelbrent Collings

    eBook (Written Insomnia Press, April 22, 2019)
    Internationally-bestselling author and multiple Bram Stoker Award finalist Michaelbrent Collings brings you one of the "Best Reads of 2019" (Horror After Dark); a "Top 10 Read of 2019" (Sci-fi & Scary).All passengers, please prepare for departure...An employee, a cop, and six passengers; a prisoner, a stowaway, and a madman."Fun novel, fast paced... Great story, recommended." - HellnotesThese are the people waiting at the Lawton bus terminal."If you need a fast-paced thriller that chills and keeps you guessing, look no further..." - Horror Novel ReviewsMostly late-night travelers who want nothing more than to get to their destinations, and employees who want nothing more than to get through the graveyard shift."[Collings] brings the reader close in and doesn't want them to leave... I'd give this an A." - Horror Drive-InBut when a strange, otherworldly fog rolls in, the night changes to nightmare. Because something hides in the fog. Something powerful. Something strange. Something... inhuman."A great read." - Sci-Fi and ScarySoon, those in the terminal have been cut off from the rest of the world. No phones, no computers. Just ten strangers in the terminal... and The Other."Terminal is a hard-edged, brutal, sometimes exceptionally violent thrill-fest of a novel that I blazed through..." - Inkheist Book ReviewsThe Other is the force in the mist. The Other is the thing that has captured them. And The Other wants to play a game."[A]n intense, creepy, and twisty read... the suspense will have you on the edge of your seat." - A Book Lover's LifeThe rules are simple:The people in the terminal must choose a single person from among them. That person will live. The rest will die.Anyone who attempts to leave the terminal before the final vote will die.The final vote... must be unanimous.5 stars! "[A] nightmarish tale that was both captivating and frightening and also a novel that I would highly recommend!" - The Genre MinxA nightmare. And getting worse, because the best way to make a vote unanimous... is to kill the other voters.Welcome to the Terminal."5 stars... another outstanding novel from author Michaelbrent Collings..." - Horror After Dark
  • The Terminal Man

    Michael Crichton

    Mass Market Paperback (Ballantine Books, July 12, 1988)
    Hearry Benson suffers from violent seizures. When he becomes part of an experimental program that sends electrodes to his brain to calm him, he is in recovery. Until he discovers how to get those soothing pulses more frequently, and then escapes the hopsital--on a murderous rampage with a deadly agenda....
  • Terminal Man

    Michael Crichton

    eBook (Vintage, May 14, 2012)
    From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation. Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blackouts when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain’s pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda. . .
  • The Terminal Man

    Alfred Merhan

    Paperback (Transworld Pub, Aug. 31, 2004)
    Alfred Merhan The Terminal Man is the extraordinary story of Mehran Karimi Nasseria, better known as 'Sir Alfred' of Charles de Gaulle Airport. Sir Alfred has spent the last 15 years living and sleeping inside the airport's Terminal One building, trapped in international no-man's land without the proper documentation n
  • The Terminal Man

    Michael Crichton

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, April 12, 1972)
    A team of surgeons perform an operation on a violent paranoid in an attempt to electronically control his behavior
  • Terminal

    JL Bryan

    eBook (www.jlbryanbooks.com, May 4, 2015)
    Ellie Jordan and her apprentice Stacey investigate a house in an elaborate planned community that was only half-built before it went bankrupt, leaving an instant ghost town with only a few residents. The entity haunting this house is a banshee that feeds on sadness and misery.Unfortunately for Ellie, this is no simple haunting, but just one symptom of the cursed land on which the suburban community was built. The old railroad line running through the nearby woods might just be a conduit for lost souls, including dark spirits with ill intentions toward the living. Ellie soon finds herself facing one of the most complex and difficult hauntings she’s seen in her career.
  • The Terminal Man

    Michael Crichton

    Mass Market Paperback (Bantam Books, March 15, 1974)
    Vintage paperback
  • The Terminal Man

    Michael Crichton

    Mass Market Paperback (Avon, Nov. 5, 2002)
    A team of surgeons performs an experimental operation on Harry Benson, a violent paranoid, in an attempt to electronically control his behavior, but the treatment has unexpected repercussion. Reprint.
  • Terminal Man, The

    Michael Crichton, Luke Daniels

    MP3 CD (Brilliance Audio, Sept. 1, 2015)
    From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation.Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blacks out when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain’s pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda....
  • Terminal

    Paul Chequer, Roderick Gordon, Audible Studios

    Audible Audiobook (Audible Studios, May 6, 2013)
    In this sixth and concluding book of the Tunnels series, the Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. It seems nothing can stop them now. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to all human and Styx life.