The Abel Mutiny

About the Book

The Sherman Class destroyer, "USS ABEL," DD907, and the lives of it´s enlisted men, is the vivid backdrop for a tense, emotional voyage to chaos.

This mutiny-of-conscience novel is set in the seething mid-sixties, when the US government was bombarding socialists in Viet Nam and spying on protestors at home. A sailor comes of age and learns that following his conscience is the only honorable way out of a grave dishonor -- his ship is secretly provoking a world-class horror.

About the Author

Allen Meece was in Somerset Kentucky in 1944 and grew up on military bases in the US and Germany. He joined the Navy in 1962 and served on destroyers as a sonar technician until 1966. He has two children, Stephanie and Steven and lives in Florida with his wife, Rosalind Brackenbury who is also a novelist. NOTE Author photo credit is Markham McGill