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An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo— about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America’s most eccentric mogul  spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed Soviet submarine K-129 after it had sunk to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean; all while the Russians were watching. In the early hours of February 25, 1968, a Russian submarine armed with three nuclear ballistic missiles set sail from its base in Siberia on a routine combat patrol to Hawaii. Then it vanished. As the Soviet Navy searched in vain for the lost vessel, a small, highly classified American operation using sophisticated deep-sea spy equipment found it—wrecked on the sea floor at a depth of 16,800 feet, far beyond the capabilities of any salvage that existed. But the potential intelligence assets onboard the ship—the nuclear warheads, battle orders, and cryptological machines—justified going to extreme lengths to find a way to raise the submarine. So began Project Azorian, a top-secret mission that took six years, cost an estimated $800 million, and would become the largest and most daring cover

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Author

Josh Dean

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101984451

Category

history

Subjects

History, Travel, Engineering

Rating

4.18 / 5 (121 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14