Paperback 2009, 384 pages
December 23, 2010
South Amboy, NJ
This book was found in complete manuscript form after Crichton’s death in 2008. It is not your typical Crichton novel in that it is not a scientific tour-de-force. Instead it is a rather straightforward narrative of how Charles Hunter leads a team of privateers and successfully takes a treasure-laden Spanish Galleon, escapes the pursuit of the Spanish, but is tried and convicted as a pirate when he returns to his home port in Jamaica, escapes and finally avenges his conviction. The one interesting “science” angle is how Hunter successfully sinks the pursuing Spanish warship.
The book is very easy to read. Comparisons with John Grisham’s non-legal novels are inevitable, and I have to give the edge to Crichton.
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