Easy Go

One of ten reissued books that Michael Crichton under a pen name while in college. You can see flashes of what he would become but it's pretty standard.

A fun adventure read. Not as exciting or suspenseful as other Crichton novels that I've read but still enjoyable with a nice little twist at the end which I liked.

This one was just okay. As the third book written as John Lange, it feels like it was rushed in a way that the first book, “Odds On” wasn't. “Odds On” has a more robust cast of characters, more fully realized, and the plot was more complex and intricate than “Easy Go”. Given our world of high stakes Ocean's Eleven-style robberies, Indiana Jones adventures, and pulp fiction's mighty past with adventure stories, this one finished limply, and never really ascended to a level of edge-of-your-seat thriller that we have come to expect. Even being dated (copyright 1968), it still feels like a weak outing as an adventure yarn. Read it for fun, I suppose, but don't hope for high stakes. You won't find them.