媒體評論：KLIATT On May 22, 1968 the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion and its crew of 99 men went down in the Atlantic off the Azores. At the time Ed Offley was a 21-year-old college student. In 1983, after Offley had become a journalist, he became interested in the loss of what was at the time the world's fastest attack boat. He interviewed several dozen former Navy personnel, family members of the crew, and scientists, and came to a radically different conclusion from the official military line that the Scorpion was destroyed by a mechanical failure of some kind. After two years of research he published an article suggesting that the sub had been sunk by an accidental torpedo mishap. The full truth could not be found until after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in 1991. Offley's exhaustive research over decades ties together the capture of the USS Pueblo by the North Koreans, the KGB, secret underwater listening devices, convicted spy John Anthony Walker, the CIA and the recovery ship Glomar Explorer, a confrontational Soviet navy, the lost Soviet sub K-129, and a US Navy cover-up. The book reads like a first-class mystery, gripping and suspenseful. Offley gives his critics their due, citing arguments against his conclusions. Reviewer: Janet Julian
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