Business is War: Rising Sun by Michael CrichtonBiography: Michael CrichtonMichael Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 23, 1942. His siblings were two sisters, Kimberly and Catherine, and one brother, Douglas . While growing up in Roslyn, New York, he was influenced by his father's desire to write and write. The Internet Movie Database states that "...his father was a journalist and encouraged him to write and write." (IMDb.com, Inc.). Considering that he himself was a journalist, he wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. Crichton attended Harvard University where he began studying English. He later dropped out of the English program due to frustration with the teachers and pursued a career in medicine. He graduated and did postdoctoral studies, but never became a licensed doctor. While attending medical school, Crichton wrote many books such as A Case of Need and Scratch One under the pseudonym John Lange. Later in his career, he returned to his initial research, or that of his father, and became a full-time author, writing several award-winning books that have been translated into over 30 languages. Some of the books written by Michael Crichton are as follows: A Case of Need (1968) The Andromeda Strain (1969) The Terminal Man (1972) The Great Train Robbery (1975) Congo (1980) Sphere ( 1987) Jurassic Park (1990) Rising Sun (1992) The Lost World (1995) State of Fear (2004) In these books, Crichton uses a style of suspense that makes you not want to put the book down. He is known as the “father of Techno-Thriller”. The action on every page is so exciting that it makes your heart skip a beat. It also tends to tie up a lot of loose ends, but it's only at the end that they really tie it together. Plot Summary: Rising Sun At the beginning of the book, you find yourself in a small apartment in Culver City, California. Lieutenant Peter Smith is at home with his two-year-old daughter, Michelle, watching the Lakers game. As the new special services liaison officer for the Japanese, he is studying the indifferent language, trying to make it his own. Without suspecting anything, he receives a phone call to report a murder reported at the Nakamoto Building, a recently built Japanese company, in downtown Los Angeles. He is joined by Captain John Connor, a retired liaison officer who is quite accustomed to Japanese culture, having lived there a few years earlier in his life..