Hostile Waters

During the Cold War, Soviet nuclear submarines tirelessly patrolled the Atlantic. Their missiles took aim at Washington, New York, and other major American cities. But they were also fairly low-tech contraptions, at least in comparison to the sophisticated U.S. subs that quietly tracked them. In 1986, one of these Soviet vessels nearly suffered a meltdown not far from Bermuda in what might have been a worse-than-Chernobyl accident. Hostile Waters tells this story more like a novel than a textbook, but also makes good use of declassified material and personal interviews. In his brief foreword, Tom Clancy calls it "one of the most fascinating true submarine stores I have ever encountered"--high praise from the man who brought us The Hunt for Red October.

• Rising Tide: The Untold Story Of The Russian Submarines That Fought The Cold War
• October Fury
• Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War
• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
• The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea
• Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
• GOD & SPIES: RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED TOP SECRET OPERATION
• Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion
• Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
• Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.