Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

by Sontag, Sherry; Drew, Christopher; Drew, Annette Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9781610393584
• ISBN10: 1610393589
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-04-05
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

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 Bluff is an exciting, epic story of adventure, ingenuity, courage, and disaster beneath the sea. This New York Times bestseller 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 USS Scorpion, 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 Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference -- everything in it is true.

Author Biography

Sherry Sontag is a former staff writer for the National Law Journal and has written for the New York Times.

Christopher Drew is 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.