Cheap, new to command, was an authoritarian with a relentless drive to prove his worthiness to superiors. Journal entries made on the voyage gave Grann a window into their thoughts and fears.īride dies at beach when speeding DUI driver slams golf cartĪt the helm is David Cheap, who became the ship’s captain after a death at sea. He manages to wring maximum drama out of the events and sketch out nuanced portraits of key players on the doomed ship. Grann, the author of the acclaimed “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells it with style. The story of the shipwreck and its aftermath features scenery-chewing characters, unexpected twists and an almost unimaginable amount of human misery. Mutineers abandoned their captain on the island after he fatally shot an unruly crew member in the head. Crew members blamed their imperious captain for their fate and rigid naval order broke down. Stranded on a cold, deserted island, shipwreck survivors scraped seaweed off rocks to boil and eat. Sailors on a secret wartime mission had already dealt with typhus, lice, blinding squalls, frostbite, worm-eaten biscuits, scurvy and the death of comrades since they set sail months earlier. The Wager, a British war ship, crashed onto rocks amid stormy seas off the coast of Patagonia in 1741. “The Wager: A Take of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” by David Grann (Doubleday) This cover image released by Doubleday shows "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" by David Grann.
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