Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781586486785
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 03/04/2008
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 122,342
Lexile: 1220L (what's this?)
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

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.
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