Simon & Schuster David Grann Collection 3 Books Set

This three-book collection brings together narrative non-fiction by David Grann, published by Simon & Schuster. Spanning maritime disaster, a series of killings in 1920s Oklahoma, and an expedition into the Amazon, each title follows a real-world mystery shaped by ambition, conflict and the limits of investigation.

Included are The Wager, Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z. From survivors washing ashore on the coast of Brazil to a case taken up by the FBI, and an explorer who vanished while pursuing a long-imagined city, the set offers three distinct accounts rooted in documented events.

Included titles

• The Wager
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Lost City of Z

Key details

• Three-book set
• Author: David Grann
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Titles included: The Wager, Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z

Synopses

The Wager

On 28 January 1742, a makeshift vessel washed up on the coast of Brazil carrying thirty emaciated men. They claimed to be survivors of His Majesty’s ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While pursuing a Spanish galleon said to be filled with treasure, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia.

Killers of the Flower Moon

In the 1920s, members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma were described as the richest people per capita in the world after oil was found beneath their land. As the Osage began to be killed one by one, the death toll rose and the FBI took up the case. The bureau, however, is said to have badly mishandled the investigation.

The Lost City of Z

Fawcett, described as one of the last of a legendary generation of British explorers, spent years travelling in the Amazon and became convinced the jungle hid a large, complex civilisation. He named it the City of Z. In 1925 he entered the wilderness with his son Jack, and they disappeared; for the next eighty years, others ventured into the jungle seeking evidence of Fawcett’s party or Z.