State of Fear - reading

Finished "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. I really didn't like the characters, especially the stupid lawyer main character (Mr. "I don't know") and thought the plot needed, well, something more. It's not that I'm a huge advocate for global warming and offended that he's put it in a bad light, either. I'm not, and that had nothing to do with the problems I had with the book. I just thought the characters were perhaps two-dimensional, perhaps too focused on some aspect of the story, and that the main character was an idiot.