Charles Hunter, Harvard graduate and privateer, who agrees to set off from Port Royal, Jamaica, in search of the Spanish Galleon El Trinidad, rumored to be full of gold and anchored for repairs in a nearby, but very heavily fortified, harbor. 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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