Red Star Rogue by Kenneth SewellMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book is a _lot_ of speculation. The author overtly states that yet for this first third or so of the book I was thinking two stars and regret. But, the details on the possibilities of the K-129 sinking and especially the US recovery efforts, first with USS Halibut (don't remember knowing of that one), then with Hughes and the Glomar (long interested in this one).
It is fascinating to learn of the permissive action link and how informal sharing of this preventative tech with the Soviets may have prevented a rogue nuclear attack on Pearl Harbor (Honolulu) by bad actors seeking trigger a China-US conflict. (I am paraphrasing a main theory presented here.)
Sonic monitoring in the Pacific Ocean of a capability unknown to the USSR captured three explosions which led to locating the sub and suggesting what happened.
The Cold War history here ties together the possible fate of the USS Scorpion (torpedoed in revenge?), the USS Pueblo
Among the mysteries explored here is
* the anonymous 11-man unit added last-minute to the boat,
* bodies crowded in one end more like confined than anything explained by the disaster itself
* Potential role of Stalinist instigator Mikhail Suslov and in general KGB hawks.
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