The Abel Mutiny Author:Allen Meece This mutiny-of-conscience novel is set in the seething days of the mid-sixties, when the US government was fighting Vietnam's civil war both at home and abroad. A young sailor comes of age and learns that following his conscience is the only honorable response to a grave deception -- his government is secretly using him and his ship to illegally... more » escalate the Vietnam conflict to war. The destroyer USS Abel, and life aboard it, is a vived backdrop for this tight and tense emotional voyage to China and to war. It is not about a technical mutiny as in "The Caine Mutiny" but about a serious mutiny against governmental deception and over-control of its warriors.« less