The Caine Mutiny

Summary

Aboard a battered minesweeper in the Pacific, junior officers grow convinced that their rigid, increasingly erratic captain endangers the ship, culminating in a relief of command and a court-martial. Wouk braids shipboard realism with a courtroom drama that turns the easy moral judgments of the early chapters back on the reader. The novel became a defining popular work on duty, authority, and the costs of dissent in uniform.