Originally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Blind Man's Bulff is a dramatic, and riveting history. Over the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew interviewed hundreds of men who had never spoken about their underwater lives,not even to their wives and children. They uncovered a wealth of classified information: the tapping of undersea Soviet telephone cables, the stealing of Soviet weapons, the tragic collisions of enemy submarines. They tell of medals awarded in secret and deaths disguised with disinformation. Blind Man's Bluff is a critical work of history that reads with all the excitement of a Tom Clancy novel and all the tragedy of Das Boot.

Veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New Y ork Times reporter Christopher Drew finally reveal the exciting, epic story of adventure, ingenuity, courage and disaster beneath the sea. Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the American Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet s eas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. Sontag and Drew unvei l new evidence that the Navy's own negligence might have been responsi ble for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, al l hands lost, thirty years ago. They disclose for the first time deta ils of the bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threaten ed to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions. The y tell the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet s ubmarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start. And Sontag and Drew reveal how the Nav y used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide opera tions that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the presen t-day spy operations of the Clinton Administration, Blind Man's Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference - everyth ing in it is true.