Submarine Author:Edward Topol On 28th October 1981, Soviet Submarine U-137 ran aground off the coast of Sweden just ten miles from the Swedish naval base at Karlskrona. The Soviet authorities at the time claimed that this was an accident caused by faulty navigation equipment. — But was it? — Colonel Yuryshev has the answer. He offers to trade this secret information in excha... more »nge for asylum in the West. The CIA decides to send a Russian emigre named Stavinsky (a look-alike for Yuryshev) to the Soviet Union. He'll stay there while Yuryshev escapes to the US. But the plan goes horribly wrong ....
What are the Soviets really up to?
Will Stavinsky, himself in mortal danger, be able to warn the Western world in time? Before we learn the answer, we are taken on a breathtaking, adventure-laden journey through parts of the Soviet Union which are normally out of bounds.
Submarine U-137 offers an enthralling entertainment of the kind we expect from the author of Red Square; but as a speculation based on documented facts, it makes for chilling and uncomfortable reading.« less