Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, his ninth under his own name and nineteenth overall, and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional computer hardware manufacturing company. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders and his struggle to prove that he was sexually harassed by his female employer.
The international bestselling author of Jurassic Park and Rising Sun brings us his most controversial novel to date.
Sexual harassment – the commonest abuse of power in the workplace. Every woman working in an office will suffer sexual harassment at some point in her career. Thousands of cases are brought each year.
As an issue it is seen as a weapon in the sex war, a weapon with which to achieve justice, or to accuse falsely. Some people would say it’s getting out of control. But Michael Crichton, in a novel of thought-provoking intensity has come up with a master twist – what if the victim of sexual harassment was a man?
This is the startling question behind Michael Crichton’s Disclosure, a breathtaking thriller that redraws the frontline in the sex war.
Thomas Sanders is an executive at a high-tech company, Digicam, in Seattle. His new boss is Meredith Johnson, a woman he had an affair with twelve years before. On her very first day in charge she makes a pass at him in her office. Sanders, who is now married, rebuffs her.
The next day, Sanders’ world is in tatters. Meredith has accused him of sexually harassing her, and has asked for his transfer from the company. If Sanders leaves, he sets out to clear his name, determined that justice will be done, whatever the consequences, and at whatever price he has to pay to achieve it.
Michael Crichton’s bestselling Jurassic Park and Rising Sun turned fiction into fact and made newspaper headlines worldwide. Both became blockbusting movies. Now Crichton has taken one of the most burning issues of today and transformed it into an electrifying work of fiction which no man or woman can afford to ignore.