Avast bad book lovers, we be plundering the Spanish for their gold, even if we are one dimensional 80s heist clichés, and the plot kind of dies in the middle and the ending is just murder, and if the author probably didn't intend for the book to go out after he died and what may have happened is the people in charge of his estate used the unfinished manuscript as a shameless money grab to cash in on Crichton's name recognition. In spite of all those (Possible) things, we're still going to do pirate shit, Aargh. Enjoy!