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- Richard Branson — Listed in Richard Branson's own 'My Top 65 Books To Read In A Lifetime' published on Virgin.com source ↗
Summary
A billionaire philanthropist uses advanced genetic engineering to clone dinosaurs for a theme park on a remote Costa Rican island, then invites a group of scientists to endorse it before opening. When the park's security systems fail, the dinosaurs escape their enclosures and the visitors must survive against animals that evolution never intended to share the planet with modern humans. Crichton's techno-thriller is a cautionary tale about the gap between what science can do and what it should do, wrapped in one of the most gripping page-turners of the late twentieth century.