Blind Man's Bluff: Summary and book reviews of Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag, plus links to an excerpt from Blind Man's Bluff and a biography of Sherry Sontag.
Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by
Sherry Sontag
Hardcover: Nov 1998,
352 pages.
Paperback: Oct 1999,
255 pages.
The Wall Street Journal
Judging from the citations and the inferred sources, the veterans of the silent service are silent no more. The book is full of hair-raising stories of men in peril under the sea.
The New York Times Book Review
[A]n evocative and important look at the Cold War. Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage is also satisfying to read, at times hurtling forward with the speed of a Polaris submarine.
John Weisman, Author of the Rogue Warrior series
This is the kind of non-fiction that drives people like me crazy, why? Because it's almost impossible to make up stuff this good
Seymour M Hersh, Author of The Dark Side of Camelot
A compelling account of one of the great secrets of the Cold War - the undersea spying that put so many American, and Soviet lives at risk. Blind Man's Bluff reads like an adventure novel, but it's all too real.
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