Commander C. Edward Moore…: U.S. Navy Photo
Scorpion was outside of Naples, 1969…: U.S. Naval Historical Center courtesy of H. John R. Holland
Craven (left) Harry Jackson and…: U.S. Navy photo
Scorpion's shattered hull, 1969…: U.S. Navy photo
Commander Whitey Mack…: Newport News (Va.) Daily Press
When Lapon rode home…: photo taken by a Lapon crew member
Lapon and Mack were immortalized…: photographs of original album cover taken for this book
After Tautog crashed…: Defense Visual Information Center, March Air Reserve Base, California
Tautog patch: U.S. Navy photo
Commander Buele Balderston…: U.S. Navy photo, courtesy of Irene L. Balderston
Boris Bagdasaryan…: Courtesy of Joshua Handler
Captain.lames Bradley, 1973…: U.S. Navy Photo, courtesy of Peggy Bradley
The Navy announced that Halibut…: U.S. Navy photo
Fritz Harlfinger, 1963…: U.S. Naval Historical Center, W. R. Maip
Crammed full of stolen…: Sherry Sontag
The CIA commissioned…: Times front page, Copyright © 1975 by the New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission
Glomar Explorer photos…: Sherry Sontag
One of the oldest and most broken…: U.S. Navy Photo
When the Soviets discovered…: Russian Ministry of Security's museum at the notorious Lubyanka Prison
The Navy feared..: U.S. Navy photo
When Richard Buchanan…: Defense Visual Information Center, March Air Reserve Base, California
Waldo Lyon's decades-long adventures, 1958…: U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory
The Soviets had also, 1966…: U.S. Navy V.P. Surveillance Aircraft photo, U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory
Subs traveled to the Arctic, 1987, taken at North Pole of HMS Superb, USS Billfish, (SSN-676), USS Sea Devil (SSN-664), U.S. Navy photo; sub close-up, 1987, U.S. Navy photo
Susan Nesbitt, sits with…: Anniversary Memorial Service for the loss of Scorpion, Bill Tiernan, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.
Danielle Petersen-Dixon hugs…: Bill Tiernan, The Virginian-Pilot
Throughout the United States…: Bill Tiernan, The Virginian-Pilot
About the Authors
Sherry Sontag is an investigative journalist who, before turning to Blind Man's Bluff, was a staff writer for the National Law Journal. While there, she wrote about the Soviet Union, international affairs, and domestic scandals in securities and banking. Prior to that, Sontag wrote for the New York Times. A lifelong resident of New York, she has degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Barnard College.
Christopher Drew is an investigative reporter and projects editor at the New York Times. He joined the Times in 1995 after working for nearly a decade in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Chicago Tribune, where he wrote about national security issues and won two awards from the White House Correspondents' Association. Drew also has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the TimesPicayune in New Orleans, where he was horn and raised and graduated from Tulane University.
Annette Lawrence Drew, the hook's researcher, has a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. She and Christopher Drew are married and live with their daughter, Celia, in Montclair, New Jersey.
About PublicAffairs
PUBLICAFFAIRS is a new nonfiction publishing house and a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.
I. F. STONE, proprietor of I. F. Stone's Weekly, combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published The Trial of Socrates, which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.
BENJAMIN C. BRADLEE was for nearly thirty years the charismatic editorial leader of The Washington Post. It was Ben who gave the Post the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless, and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling hooks.
ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN, the chief executive of Random House for more than a quarter century, guided one of the nation's premier publishing houses. Bob was personally responsible for many books of political dissent and argument that challenged tyranny around the globe. He is also the founder and was the longtime chair of Human Rights Watch, one of the most respected human rights organizations in the world.
For fifty years, the banner of Public Affairs Press was carried by its owner, Morris B. Schnapper, who published Gandhi, Nasser, Toynbee, Truman, and about 1, Soo other authors. In 1983 Schnapper was described by The Washington Post as "a redoubtable gadfly." His legacy will endure in the books to come.