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Fiction · Sea story

The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk
1951 · 537 pages

Missing strawberries send Captain Queeg hunting a duplicate key through his own ship, and in a typhoon his executive officer takes command. Wouk's trial asks what a crew owes a failing captain.

★ 6.0