Resumo de Disclosure - Michael Crichton

A curry of corporate culture, with a layer of law, and
tones of technology, mixed together, garnished with a scoop
of sex and suspense sprinkled all over, is the perfect
recipe for a succulent story, which Disclosure is.
Tom Sanders does not get a likely promotion, instead his
ex-lover Meredith Johnson lands the position and now Tom
Sanders has to report to her. The very day of her
appointment Meredith calls Sanders for a meeting in her
office in the after hours. She tries to seduce him, he also
gets enticed but pulls away in the very end after the
foreplay.
The next day Tom Sanders finds out that he has been
accused of sexual harassment. Meanwhile he has other
worries, the manufacturing of CD-ROM drives for which he is
responsible, has some errors that his team is not being
able to diagnose. At the same time DigiCom, the company for
which Sanders works, is being acquisitioned by Conley-
White, who have an interest in the drives.
Sanders seeks an outside counsel and presses charges of
sexual harassment against Meredith Johnson, which lands him
in a precarious position, as any bad publicity of the
company may mean that the acquisition would be off, and he
would lose his job. Fernandez, a lawyer with a reputation
of handling sexual harassment cases successfully, comes to
his rescue.
What ensues is a war of wits, and a smear campaign. While
his mentor reminds Sanders constantly, that he should
concentrate on technical matters that is Sander's field of
expertise, and anonymous messages keep dropping him hints
as to what he should do, Sanders remain indifferent and
concentrates on winning the case.
Finally what he finds is that, his mentor had always been
right, he had been concentrating on the wrong things. He
has only one night to set things right and keep his job.
Crichton handles all the aspect of the novel brilliantly
well. Whether it?s the discussion of law between lawyers,
or scientific jargon, Crichton writes it with sheer ease,
which also is very easy to read. The plot is ingenious; the
reader can?t foretell even what the next page is going to
be. All in all Disclosure is a fantastic book, page-turner
and the book that can be re-read many times, in fact it?s a
great value for the money.
Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, in 1942. He is
arguably the best teacher of Science to masses. He is a
qualified doctor and also has some Hollywood movies to his
credit. He is also the creator of the television series ER.
His novels include The Jurassic Park, The Great Train
Robbery, Lost World, Sphere, Timeline, and his latest
venture The State of Fear.

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