Pirate Latitudes

Pirate Latitudes

by Michael Crichton
Pirate Latitudes

Pirate Latitudes

by Michael Crichton

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Overview

“Crichton’s ultimate adventure.”

San Francisco Chronicle

 

Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action….A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure.”
USA Today

 

“Riveting….Great entertainment….The pages and minutes fly by.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer

 

#1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton (“One of the great storytellers of our age” —Newsday) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates, lost treasure, sword fights, duplicity, and hair-breadth escapes in the New World.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061929380
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 09/28/2010
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 278,269
Product dimensions: 7.76(w) x 11.30(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was the author of the bestselling novels The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear, Next and Dragon Teeth, among many others. His books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, have been translated into forty languages, and have provided the basis for fifteen feature films. He wrote and directed Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, RunawayLookerComa and created the hit television series ER. Crichton remains the only writer to have a number one book, movie, and TV show in the same year.

Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as ten other books. He recently wrote the Earth 2: Society comic book series for DC Comics. Wilson earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He has published over a dozen scientific papers and holds four patents. Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon.

Hometown:

Los Angeles, California

Date of Birth:

October 23, 1942

Date of Death:

November 4, 2008

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois

Place of Death:

Los Angeles, California

Education:

B.A.. in Anthropology, Harvard University, 1964; M.D., Harvard Medical School, 1969

What People are Saying About This

Michael Berry

“It’s not an ironic pirate novel. It’s not a pirate novel with a secret gimmick. It’s simply an entertaining tale filled with crafty privateers, despicable villains, treasure hoards, double crosses and a sea monster. Go figure.”

Bob Minzesheimer

“Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action…. A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure…. History as entertainment…. Crichton has done his homework.”

Cameron Martin

“Unabashed fun.”

Benjamin Svetsky

“The plot sucks you in like the giant kraken monster that nearly sinks our hero’s galleon.”

Richard Eisenberg

“Offers unexpected turns and plenty of yo ho ho’s.”

Interviews

A Special Tribute from Lynn Nesbit
For over 40 years Michael Crichton was not only my client but also a wonderful friend whose wry wit and laser intelligence made him incomparable. We met when I was a very, very young agent and he was a student at Harvard Medical School -- and had just written his first John Lange thriller. An older male friend decided he would take Michael in hand and introduce him to the most powerful agents in New York -- of whom I was not one -- and was trotting him around to all the agencies. I got to meet him only because I worked at an agency with an important television agent, and I could see that this older gentleman was not at all happy to have him meet this young woman. But Michael came back again and we had a long conversation, and he said, "Let's grow up in the business together." Which we did. And we had a long run.

We are lucky to have, in addition to the incredible backlist of the groundbreaking books -- The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Disclosure, to name just a few -- this incredible rollicking romp, Pirate Latitudes, to remember him by.

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