Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Christopher Drew
Christopher Drew . Unknown Year . English
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.
Categories: Action & Adventure
About the Author
Christopher Drew is the co-author of “Blind Man’s Bluff,” a best-selling book about submarine spying during the Cold War. The book was on best-seller lists for nearly a year, and "60 Minutes" and the History Channel based shows on it. Drew also co-wrote "Into the Deep: A Memoir of the Man Who Found Titanic" with Robert D. Ballard, the famed ocean explorer. Drew was an investigative reporter and editor for The New York Times for 22 years in Washington and New York. Before that, he was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and The Times-Picayune in his native New Orleans. He received two awards for national reporting from the White House Correspondents’ Association and won a George Polk Award with other Times journalists for a series of stories about Navy SEALs. Drew taught investigative reporting at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism for 10 years as an adjunct professor. He now holds the Fred Jones Greer, Jr. Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication. He leads the school's experiential journalism curriculum, including its Statehouse Bureau and its racial and criminal-justice reporting programs.
