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. Genre Fiction. The man who lost his past. The classic thriller and "New York Times" bestseller is reissued with a new look. It makes you realize that what once seemed impossible, actually isn't. Harry had psycho motor epilepsy because he hit his head in a car accident and it resulted in brain damage. $19.99. The Terminal Man was about the neuropsychiatric section of a hospital doing a breakthrough surgery to help reverse the effects of psycho motor epilepsy. This is the story of Sir Alfred Merhan, the man who has been stuck at Charles de Gaulle for over 16 years. Merhan Karimi Nasseri has spent 16 years living in Charles de Gaulle airport. $12.99. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page. 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. It was a fact that they all tended to forget. Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up in Store Octavo, xi, 247pp, [9]. To the cops, Benson was a criminal charged with assault, one of the hundreds of querulous types they saw each day. Illustrated gray boards, yellow cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. 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. The Terminal Man 272. by Michael Crichton | Editorial Reviews. "The Terminal" is a delightful and uncommon fable about a patient man who is trapped by the bureaucracy in the international lounge of JFK. Sir Alfred is not his real name, of course: it was something he adopted from a British bureaucrat’s letter which began, “Dear Sir, Alfred”. Paperback. From The Terminal Man: “He’s a very bright man,” Ross said. In publisher’s first state dust jacket, $6.95 … To the hospital staff, he was a diseased man, unhappy, dangerous, borderline psychotic. The terminal man. First edition of The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton in first issue dust jacket. 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. Directed by Mike Hodges. THE TERMINAL MAN by Andrew Donkin Corgi £6.99. 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. Passage highlighted in the author’s introduction, otherwise clean text. Paperback (Reprint) $ 15.95. Top edge dyed yellow. Edition Description. NOOK Book. His story was the inspiriation behind the movie The Terminal. [1st ed.] The patient's name was Harry Benson. $14.99. Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references. With George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat. View All Available Formats & Editions. If you thought he was just another passenger waiting to catch a flight, you’d only be part right. Harry was a good subject… The terminal man This edition was published in 2002 by Avon Books in New York. 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. Audio CD. $15.95. This edition was published in 1972 by Knopf in New York. The Terminal Man is of the same genre, but it brings the The Andromeda Strain is a captivating science fiction suspense thriller. 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