Showing posts with label novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label novel. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Pirate Latitudes


Pirate Latitudes is an action adventure novel written by Michael Crichton. The book was published posthumously by HarperCollins on November 24, 2009. It is an adventure story concerning piracy in Jamaica in the 17th century.
The novel stars the fictional privateer Captain Charles Hunter who, together with the governor of Jamaica, plots to raid a Spanish galleon for its treasure. Johnathan Burnham's review states that it is "thoroughly researched...packed through with great detail about navigation and how pirates operated, and links between the New World and the Caribbean and Spain.”[
The novel was discovered on one of Crichton's computers by his assistant after the author's death, along with an unfinished novel, Micro, now scheduled to be published in 2011.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The Eagle


The Eagle is the final novel in the A Dream of Eagles series (published in the United States as the Camulod Chronicles). The Eagle follows the continuing story of Clothar (Lancelot) from when he meets Arthur Pendragon, and up to King Arthur's death and beyond. Not to be confused with the film of the same name (based on Rosemary Sutcliff's novel Eagle of The Ninth) this is a wonderfull yarn for anyone interested in the Arthurian Legends. Like Lawhead's Hood series it takes a different look at the ageless legend of Lance, Quinevere & King Arthur, great summer reading fun!