New York Times bestselling author David Grann returns with The Wager, a captivating story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery. In this book written with the propulsion of a thriller, Grann unearths the deeper meaning of the historical events aboard the Wager, revealing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of an empire.

Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of several books, including The Lost City of Z and Killers of the Flower Moon, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been adapted into a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio; the two are also slated to do the film adaptation of The Wager.