David Grann recounts a tale of ambition, survival, treachery, and deceit in his book about an 18th-century mutiny on the British HMS Wager.

In 1741, The HMS Wager, a British warship, was wrecked off the coast of Patagonia, and a mutiny took place soon after.

By 1746, four different groups of seamen had miraculously arrived in England after years of struggling for survival.

Now, back in England, the men offered dramatically different accounts of the same shocking events.

David Grann is an award-winning journalist whose non-fiction books have seen numerous screen adaptations.

In The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, Grann collates extensive evidence to create a gripping narrative set on the high seas, a desolate island, and in the courts of London.