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Pirate Latitudes. The year is 1665, and a Spanish treasure ship sits alone in a fortified Caribbean cove. It is as if the fates have placed it there, for only one man has the skill and daring to try to capture it: Captain Charles Hunter, a Puritan-born scholar from Boston turned Caribbean privateer.
Nov 24, 2009 · Word in port is that the Spanish treasure galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, is stalled in nearby Matanceros harbor awaiting repairs. Heavily fortified, the impregnable Spanish outpost is guarded by the blood-swiller Cazalla, a favorite commander of King Philip IV himself.
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Pirate Latitudes is Michael Crichton at his best: a rollicking adventure tale pulsing with relentless action, crackling atmosphere, and heart-pounding suspense.
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Dec 22, 2009 · Last year, when the best-selling novelist Michael Crichton died, he left behind a completed novel. It's set in the mid-17th century Caribbean. And it's about pirates. Alan Cheuse reviews the ...
Mar 21, 2019 · “Pirate Latitudes” is an adventure novel that makes learning fun. Although it’s fiction, we get a window into the culture and traditions of the time and place, and the precise steps by which high-seas thievery plays out.
Pirate Latitudes is an action adventure novel by Michael Crichton, the sixteenth novel to be published under his own name and first to be published after his death, concerning 17th-century piracy in the Caribbean.
Jan 18, 2011 · Pirate Latitudes. by Michael Crichton. PIRATE LATITUDES was discovered on one of Michael. Crichton’s computers after his untimely death in 2008. Written in 2006, it is everything a pirate adventure novel should.
