Captain's Dinner
$47.82
- Paperback
300 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2026
Summary
Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder.
“A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many?” (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)
On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette sailed from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Dudley and his crew found th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781835016220 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1835016227 |
| Author: | Adam Cohen |
| Publisher: | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Imprint: | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen is the author of Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and The Sterilization of Carrie Buck, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. He is also the author of Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America and Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the 100 Days That Created Modern America.
Cohen is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as president of volume 100 of the Harvard Law Review. He was a member of the NYT editorial board and a senior writer for Time.
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