The Lords of Discipline
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The Lords of Discipline is a novel by Pat Conroy. Will, the narrator, is a cadet at the Carolina Military Institute, a military academy located in Charleston, South Carolina. During his senior year, he discovers that not everything in his life is as it seems, either within the walls of the Institute or in the city outside them...
Although Conroy drew on his experiences as a cadet at The Citadel during the 1960s to create the setting for the story, he has explicitly stated that the novel's plot is a product of his imagination.
The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1983 film of the same name starring David Keith as Will McClean and Robert Prosky as Colonel "Bear" Berrineau.