Discover the secret history of America's submarine warfare in this fast-paced and deeply researched chronicle of adventure and intrigue during the Cold War that reads like a spy thriller.Blind Man's Bluffis an exciting, epic story of adventure, ingenuity, courage, and disaster beneath the sea. ThisNew York Timesbestseller reveals previously unknown dramas, such as:
- The mission to send submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables.
- How the Navy's own negligence may have been responsible for the loss of the USSScorpion, a submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, in 1968.
- The bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions.
- The audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start.
A magnificent achievement in investigative reporting,
Blind Man's Bluffreads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference-everything in it is true.
Sherry Sontagis a former staff writer for the National Law Journal and has written for the New York Times.
Christopher Drewis a special projects editor at the New York Times and has won numerous awards for his investigative reporting.
Annette Lawrence Drew, the book's researcher, has a PhD from Princeton.
Packed withreal life adventures that Tom Clancy could only have guessed at. . . . Morethan a collection of sea stories. It reveals how submarine operations duringthe cold war had a profound impact on strategic decisions made in the Kremlinand Washington. . . . With Naval agents on their heels . . . Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew have made a successful end run around stacksof secrecy oaths and the locked lil£Í
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