SOURCE: "Tears Before Bed," in The Observer, January 30, 1994, p. 19.

In the following unfavorable review of Disclosure, Brennan contends that the novel's plot is contrived and its sexual harassment theme contains misogynistic sentiments.

Sexual harassment suits are about more than reputations: the scent of big money is in the air, making corporate America twitchy. Crichton has put his finger on the latest anxiety; if women and men are equal in the workplace, does a male subordinate's claim of sexual harassment by a woman employer carry the same weight as a woman employee's claim against a man?

One difference is that the harassed man's predicament qualifies as thriller material: Tom Sanders, a middle-manager in a computer company, has his trousers removed over a bottle of Chardonnay in the boss's suite. If she had groped him every day for three years behind the photocopier, it would have been a dull read...