HarperCollins Plans on Publishing New Works of the Late Michael Crichton

HarperCollins has announced that the late Michael Crichton, best selling author of Jurassic Park and other thrillers, left behind at least one finished novel and about one-third of a second.HarperCollins will release Pirate Latitudes, an adventure story set in Jamaica in the 17th century, on Nov. 24. The company also plans to publish a technological thriller in the fall of 2010, a novel that Mr. Crichton was writing when he died. Crichton's assistant discovered Pirate Latitudes in Crichton's computer files after his death. The novel features a pirate named Hunter and the governor of Jamaica, and their plan to raid a Spanish treasure galleon. HarperCollins does not plan to take Crichton’s name and create a franchise in the way that ghostwriters have continued to publish books under Robert Ludlum’s name long after his death