Odds On

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Odds On
First edition cover
Author(s)	John Lange
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Signet Books
Publication date	1966
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	215
Followed by	Scratch One

Odds On is Michael Crichton's first published novel.^[1] It was released in 1966 under the pseudonym of John Lange. It is a short 215-page paperback novel.

It describes an attempt of robbery in an isolated hotel on Costa Brava. The robbery is planned with the help of a Critical Path Analysis computer program, but unforeseen events get in the way.

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^ "Fantasist's Midas touch". The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24612097-16947,00.html. Retrieved 2009-02-22.

v t e Works by Michael Crichton

Novels	The Andromeda Strain (1969) The Terminal Man (1972) The Great Train Robbery (1975) Eaters of the Dead (1976) Congo (1980) Sphere (1987) Jurassic Park (1990) Rising Sun (1992) Disclosure (1994) The Lost World (1995) Airframe (1996) Timeline (1999) Prey (2002) State of Fear (2004) Next (2006) Pirate Latitudes (2009) Micro (2011, with Richard Preston)

Novels written under pseudonyms	Odds On (1966) Scratch One (1967) Easy Go (1968) A Case of Need (1968) Zero Cool (1969) The Venom Business (1969) Drug of Choice (1970) Dealing (1970) Grave Descend (1970) Binary (1972)

Non-fiction	Five Patients (1970) Jasper Johns (1977) Electronic Life (1983) Travels (1988)

Film adaptations	The Andromeda Strain (1971) Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972) The Carey Treatment (1972) The Terminal Man (1974) The First Great Train Robbery (1979) Rising Sun (1993) Jurassic Park (1993) Disclosure (1994) Congo (1995) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Sphere (1998) The 13th Warrior (1999) Timeline (2003) The Andromeda Strain (2008)

Film writer or director	Pursuit (1972) Westworld (1973) Coma (1978) The First Great Train Robbery (1979) Looker (1981) Runaway (1984) Physical Evidence (1989) Jurassic Park (1993) Rising Sun (1993) Twister (1996)

TV series	Beyond Westworld (1980) ER (1994–2009)

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