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Book review: Pirate Latitudes
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton is published by Harper Collins, priced £18.99.
Michael Crichton's posthumously-published Pirate Latitudes is a believable telling of swashbuckling based on the story of a real-life privateer.
With his famed attention to detail, Crichton transports the reader to the Caribbean, painting a thrilling picture of life on the high seas.
There's enough action to keep anyone interested – Spanish gold, sea battles, the mythical sea monster known as the kraken, and plenty of fighting thrown in for good measure.
But as with all pirates, in-fighting and backbiting sees our hero doomed to finish his days shunned by the king he had secretly served and unable to discover where his treasure was buried by a crewmate who turned against him.
8/10 Review by Roddy Brooks
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