To the hospital staff, he was a diseased man, unhappy, dangerous, borderline psychotic. Top edge dyed yellow. Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references. Genre Fiction. First edition of The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton in first issue dust jacket. Illustrated gray boards, yellow cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. Sir Alfred Mehran is sitting on his red bench in the middle of Charles de Gaulle airport, where he has been marooned for 16 years, waiting to leave. With George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat. From The Terminal Man: “He’s a very bright man,” Ross said. It makes you realize that what once seemed impossible, actually isn't. Sir Alfred has spent the last 15 years living and sleeping inside the airport's Terminal One building, trapped in international no-man's land without the … The movie is based on the life of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, currently 73, who was forced to stay at the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years. Nasseri teamed up with a British author named Andrew Donkin to write a book about his adventures at the airport. This edition was published in 1972 by Knopf in New York. The Terminal Man. Like Andromeda Strain, Coma and the Anderson Tapes, Terminal Man is less a … Watch Terminal Man for the sets, for the music, and for its nostalgic sense of a forgotten future. His story was the inspiriation behind the movie The Terminal. It is a easy to read account of his life leading up to arriving at the airport, as well as the various accounts of him trying to leave and obtain citizenship in various locations. The terminal man. To the cops, Benson was a criminal charged with assault, one of the hundreds of querulous types they saw each day. https://www.amazon.com/Terminal-Man-Michael-Crichton/dp/0345354621 If you thought he was just another passenger waiting to catch a flight, you’d only be part right. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page. This is the story of Sir Alfred Merhan, the man who has been stuck at Charles de Gaulle for over 16 years. If you happened to pass through Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle International Airport between August 26, 1988 and July 2006, you may have spotted Mehran Karimi Nasseri. It was released in 2004 and published in several countries including Germany and the UK. THE TERMINAL MAN by Andrew Donkin Corgi £6.99. It was a fact that they all tended to forget. Directed by Mike Hodges. Passage highlighted in the author’s introduction, otherwise clean text. Octavo, xi, 247pp, [9]. If you’ve seen Steven Spielberg’s “The Terminal”, starring Tom Hanks, you must’ve known that it is based on a true story about a man being stuck at an airport for almost two decades. Hoping to cure his violent seizures, a man agrees to a series of experimental microcomputers inserted into his brain but inadvertently discovers that violence now triggers a pleasurable response his brain. 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