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''Pirate Latitudes'' is an action adventure novel by Michael Crichton, concerning 17th century piracy in the Caribbean. HarperCollins published the book posthumously on November 26, 2009. The story stars the fictional privateer Captain Charles Hunter who, hired by Jamaica's governor Sir James Almont, plots to raid a Spanish galleon for its treasure. ==Background == Crichton's assistant discovered the manuscript on one of the author's computers after Crichton's death in 2008, along with an unfinished novel, ''Micro'' (2011).〔 According to Jonathan Burnham, a publisher of a HarperCollins imprint, ''Pirate Latitudes'' had been written concurrently with Crichton's then most recent novel, ''Next'' (2006). According to Marla Warren, however, there is evidence that Crichton had been working on ''Pirate Latitudes'' at least since the 1970s; to substantiate her position, she quotes a statement by Patrick McGilligan in the March 1979 issue of ''American Film'' that Crichton was aiming "to complete a long-standing book project about Caribbean pirates in the seventeenth century." Additionally, in 1981, Crichton said he was working on a pirate story, and he mentioned the project in his non-fiction book ''Travels'' (1988). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pirate Latitudes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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