Point of View

This novel is told from the third person point of view of a limited narrator. The majority of the story is told with a focus on Sanders. The events are narrated through Sanders’ perspective with the narrator describing Sanders’ emotions, thoughts, and memories. Crichton is able to build the suspense about what is actually happening at DigiCom by revealing only what Sanders knows about what is happening. The reader learns at the same time what Sanders does, why Meredith made sexual advances on Sanders, and what she and Blackburn hoped to achieve by trying to force Sanders out of the Seattle office.

Telling the story from the first-person point of view of Sanders would not have worked. Crichton wants his focus to be on the topics he is addressing — sexual assault and the way it is handled differently for men and women — than on an...