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* ArcWords: "What makes urine blue?"
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Harvey Blood, the CEO of Advance, Inc.]]

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* FantasticDrug

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* MegaCorp: Advance Biosystems

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* WouldHitAGirl: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. Clark does this, albeit reluctantly, to try and wake Sharon Wilder from her coma near the beginning of the book.

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* WouldHitAGirl: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. Clark does this, albeit reluctantly, to try and wake Sharon Wilder from her coma near the beginning of the book.book.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Blood. He gets injected with the hallucination-inducing serum used to coerce and torture people earlier in the novel, then left to scream and go bat-shit crazy from his delusions before the corporate headquarters he's in finally explodes when Clark's timer goes off and kills him.]]

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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Blood. He gets injected with the hallucination-inducing serum used to coerce and torture people earlier in the novel, then left to scream and go bat-shit crazy from his delusions before Clark's timer goes off and the corporate headquarters he's in finally explodes when Clark's timer goes off and kills him.]]
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* StuffBlowingUp: At the end of the novel, [[spoiler:Clark blows up Advance's corporate HQ with a pretty spectacular one. The BigBad goes out this way too.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Blood. He gets injected with the hallucination-inducing serum used the coerce and torture people earlier in the novel, then left to scream and go bat-shit crazy from his delusions before the corporate headquarters he's in finally explodes and kills him.]]

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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Blood. He gets injected with the hallucination-inducing serum used the to coerce and torture people earlier in the novel, then left to scream and go bat-shit crazy from his delusions before the corporate headquarters he's in finally explodes when Clark's timer goes off and kills him.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Blood. He gets injected with the hallucination-inducing serum used the coerce and torture people earlier in the novel, then left to scream and go bat-shit crazy from his delusions before the corporate headquarters he's in finally explodes and kills him.]]

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* ConspiracyLiterature

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* ConspiracyLiteratureBigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Harvey Blood, the CEO of Advance, Inc.]]
* ConspiracyLiterature: The novel deals with a doctor uncovering a corporate conspiracy involving a FantasticDrug and a secret IslandBase.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Harvey Blood, and to some extent, George K. Washington.]]


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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Dr. Harvey Blood
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* WouldHitAGirl: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. Clark does this, albeit reluctantly, to try and wake Sharon Wilder from her coma near the beginning of the book.
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* ShownTheirWork: It's early Crichton, so the hospital scenes and medical practices described all come from his knowledge at Harvey Medical School.

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* ShownTheirWork: It's early Crichton, so the hospital scenes and medical practices described all come from his knowledge at Harvey Harvard Medical School.
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''Drug of Choice'' is a 1970 medical ConspiracyThriller novel written by Creator/MichaelCrichton under the pseudonym "John Lange".

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* ArcWords: "What makes urine blue?"
* ConspiracyLiterature
* FantasticDrug
* IslandBase: Eden Island for [[spoiler:Advance Biosystems]].
* MegaCorp: Advance Biosystems
* ShownTheirWork: It's early Crichton, so the hospital scenes and medical practices described all come from his knowledge at Harvey Medical School.

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