I've read The Devil's Alternative when I was maybe 14, and I still think that it was a pretty solid book - exciting plots, well-researched and plausible. Maybe

I've read The Devil's Alternative when I was maybe 14, and I still think that it was a pretty solid book - exciting plots, well-researched and plausible. Maybe similar to Michael Crichton (who sadly died pretty young), whose Dino Park I read around the same time. Both of them, I think, were in the upper range of "thriller" novels.