#173 in Adventure
Pirate Latitudes
- 332
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 0 weeks on the list
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Our view
“Pirate Latitudes” delivers what its title promises: a well-written pirate adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean. The privateer Charles Hunter, hired by Jamaica’s governor, plans an attack on a Spanish treasure galleon, and Crichton stays with ships, gold and danger, leaving out the science found in his other novels. The mood is tense and at times dark. Readers who want pirates and nothing else are well served.
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About the book
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. 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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.7 across 173 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 54% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 5.7 | 6 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 6.7 | 167 | 97% |
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How long is Pirate Latitudes?
It has 332 pages — shorter than 63% of the ranked books in Adventure.
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