恐惧状态(State of Fear)简介：
For his latest foray, Crichton alters his usual formula--three parts thrills and spills to one part hard science--to a less appetizing concoction that is half anti-global warming screed and half adventure yarn. This adds a mission impossible element to Wilson's narration: how to make pages of research interesting enough to hold the listener's attention until hero and heroine face their next peril. Unfortunately, Wilson approaches the statistical information like a newscaster communicating via Teleprompter. This earns him an A-plus for elocution and timbre, but a more average grade when it comes to dramatic interpretation. Consequently, the scientific material that Crichton spent three years researching seems even more copious in audio format than in print. And it's certainly much harder to flip past. Wilson is more successful in handling conversational passages, employing accents and adding subtle touches to various voices--a cynical tone for the hero, who's a mildly hedonistic corporate lawyer, and an edgier, less patient attitude for the beautiful, ready-for-anything heroine. As they hot-foot it around the globe, assisting an Indiana Jones-like MIT professor in thwarting evils perpetrated by a mass-murdering environmentalist, Wilson stirs up a little suspense by speaking faster and more energetically. But the book's abundance of statistics would slow any narrator's momentum, and Wilson is no exception.

　　亿万富翁乔治·莫顿准备给国家环境资源基金会捐助一千万美元，用于支付一场具有里程碑意义的诉讼的费用。
　　在捐出这笔钱之前，莫顿得到消息，该基金会很可能有问题。莫顿只好停止这一善举，而基金会的主席尼古拉斯劝莫顿不要改变初衷，进退两难的莫顿便让他的律师埃文斯秘密对此事进行调查。在庆祝莫顿当选国家环境资源基金会“年度人物”的晚宴上，莫顿公开抨击该基金会的所作所为，然后像个醉汉似的摇摇晃晃地离开了。后来，人们发现他的车在峭壁边缘撞得粉碎，而莫顿却死不见尸……