The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

This is a stark contrast to the feel/flow of the author's other biggest work - while Killers of the Flower Moon had a strong textbook vibe, this one reads like epic, cinematic fiction. Also as non-fiction, it still weaves in a ton of cites, accounts, and facts from the research, but this time it is part of well structured and tight story with some brutal detail that makes you feel like you are in the 1700s. The only shortcoming could be that there are strong shades of Lord of Flies after the shipwreck, but this is a ‘true story' that happened ages before and the quality of writing gives this one has plenty more depth to it.