Spy Sub: A Top-Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific. This item is unavailable.Spy Sub: A Top-Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific

Featuring eight pages of photographs, a real-life version of The Hunt for Red October recounts a U.S. submarine's perilous secret mission to find a downed Soviet nuclear submarine carrying the Soviet Union's secret code books. Reprint.

Spy Sub is the tale of a top-secret submarine named Halibut that lowered miles and miles of special cable along the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in order to investigate a sunken Soviet sub. The mission was such a success that the Halibut itself received a Presidential medal in a secret ceremony. It's a true story, even the part about the sub getting a medal. Roger C. Dunham, a nuclear-reactor operator on board the Halibut during the mission, provides a firsthand account of an aspect of Cold War espionage that has only recently begun to surface. To this day, the Pentagon refuses to acknowledge such missions, in all likelihood because they are still going