2 Posthumous Crichton Novels

The NYT reports that HarperCollins will be bringing out two posthumous novels by the late Michael Crichton author of best selling technological thrillers such as The Adromeda Strain and Juraissic Park. Pirate Latitudes was discovered by his assistant in Crichton's computer files and features a pirate named Hunter and the governor of Jamaica and their plan to raid a Spanish treasure galleon. The second novel, a technological thriller was only a third of the way through and the publisher will work with Lynn Nesbit, Crichton's agent, and his estate to select a co-writer to finish the book, working from Crichton's notes. Read more.