Red Star Rogue
The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.
Chapter One
In the dark hours of March 7, 1968, a lone submarine slowly prowled the surface in open waters of the North Pacific. The slender sub rolled easily in swells raised by a twenty-knot wind. Occasionally, the whitecaps racing ahead of wave crests broke over the low forward deck, sending foaming rivulets of seawater to hide the rust streaks weeping from the boat's aging welds.
A coast watcher might have mistaken the submarine for some naval relic with an oddly long fin emerging from the depths to fight a sea battle of the Second World War. Such identification would have been only partly right. This sub, despite its angular U-boat appearance, carried three atomic-age ballistic missiles snugly housed in tubes in its extended sail.
On the bridge, in the brisk wind, an officer quickly scanned the horizon through powerful naval binoculars, and then raised them to search all quadrants of the night sky.
A seaman in an ill-fitting sheepskin coat focused his attention closer to home, climbing to the highest point in the af ... read full excerpt from Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. ebook
