![]() ![]() The protagonist of "Pirate Latitudes" is Capt. It's simply an entertaining tale filled with crafty privateers, despicable villains, treasure hoards, double crosses and a sea monster. It's not a pirate novel with a secret gimmick. Set in the Caribbean in 1665, "Pirate Latitudes" is pretty much a straight-ahead adventure story. ![]() It reads like something its author would not have minded seeing published with a cover emblazoned with his name above the title. The good news here is that "Pirate Latitudes" doesn't seem to have been assembled from drafts, notes and the input of after-the-fact collaborators. When Michael Crichton died of cancer in 2008, he left in his files a complete manuscript, now published as "Pirate Latitudes." Posthumous publications are a notoriously dicey proposition, even for writers as professional and competent as the author of "Jurassic Park" and " The Andromeda Strain." ![]()
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