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Know this, if you dive into "Pirate Latitudes,'' Michael Crichton's 17th-century high seas adventure: The Englishmen who plunder Spanish treasure ships here are not pirates.

PIRATE LATITUDES By Michael Crichton Harper, $27.99, 312 pages REVIEWED BY JAMES E. PERSON JR.

Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton s posthumously published story, follows the uncomplicated form of the author s early work By Michael Berry NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, SAN FRANCISCO Sunday, Dec 13, 2009, Page 14 When Michael Crichton died of cancer last year, he left in his files a complete manuscript, now published as Pirate Latitudes.

Hoist the Jolly Roger above the best-seller list, ye mateys, 'cause Michael Crichton has just published a swashbuckling pirate thriller.

Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat.

When Michael Crichton died a year ago, he left completed on his desk the manuscript for this, his 16th novel, a characteristically riveting and marvelously improbable tale of English pirates on the trail of a Spanish treasure ship.

Three months later, the manuscript of P irate Latitudes was found in one of his computers.

The ultimate weapon is about to be unleashed! Michael Crichton's first turn in the director's chair revolves around a frantic hunt for an extremist political fringe group looking to kill the President and send the country into a tailspin.

Michael Crichton -- the world's top selling science-fiction writer, by far -- has taken a lot of flak in recent years for bending the truth in his novels.

In his 2004 novel 'State of Fear,' the late author Michael Crichton observed that our institutions of higher learning, where young people were once safe to explore a variety of sometimes unconventional and even radical ideas, have in recent decades quietly come to fulfill a very different role.

Award-winning writer Mary Dickson will participate in a post-film discussion of The Andromeda Strain on Wednesday, September 9 at 6 pm at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts .

MUMBAI: As far as the Indian entertainment business goes, it doesn't get bigger than this one.

Steven Spielberg is developing a feature film based on PIRATE LATITUDES, a posthumously published Michael Crichton novel that won't hit stores until late November.

Hollywood's DreamWorks Studios has acquired the rights to the late Michael Crichton 's last manuscript, a 17th century pirate yarn.

According to USA Today , Steven Spielberg is currently putting together a film based on the novel Pirate Latitudes from the late author, Michael Crichton.

According to USA Today , Steven Spielberg is currently putting together a film based on the novel Pirate Latitudes from the late author, Michael Crichton.

A Star is Born 7.28.09: Michael Crichton Posted by Dan Baltrusis on 07.28.2009 We all love his books, but how well were they translated into movies? I remember the first day I ever picked up a Michael Crichton book.

The top selling books of 1969, according to Publisher's Weekly, are: 1. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.

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