“Blind Man’s Bluff” is a GREAT book about the CIA op to recover a whole Soviet sub —with nukes— intact and whole.
Verrrry readable, a real page-turner.
Not ALL of The Hunt For Red October was fiction.
See my #3—I remember at the time the State of Hawaii was hopping mad because they were convinced Howard Hughes was going to steal all of Hawaii’s “manganese nodules.” It was all made up as a cover for the op, and Hawaii fell for it, hook line and sinker.
And true?
Yes, great book. I am reading one now called “Red November” and it is quite interesting.
I vaguely recall reading somewhere that the scene in the book about the collision with a Russian sub, was...inspired...by real events.
That was a great book. I read it when it came out and I was working in the optical communications industry. Fascinating information on how undersea cables were tapped in the cold war in impossible conditions — without the cable operators even knowing they were being tapped.