The Taking of K-129 Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Josh Dean
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
130

The Taking of K-129 by Josh Dean Book Summary

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 covert operation in CIA history.

After the U.S. Navy declared retrieving the sub “impossible,” the mission fell to the CIA's burgeoning Directorate of Science and Technology, the little-known division responsible for the legendary U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes. Working with Global Marine Systems, the country's foremost maker of exotic, deep-sea drilling vessels, the CIA commissioned the most expensive ship ever built and told the world that it belonged to the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, who would use the mammoth ship to mine rare minerals from the ocean floor. In reality, a complex network of spies, scientists, and politicians attempted a project even crazier than Hughes’s reputation: raising the sub directly under the watchful eyes of the Russians.

The Taking of K-129 is a riveting, almost unbelievable true-life tale of military history, engineering genius, and high-stakes spy-craft set during the height of the Cold War, when nuclear annihilation was a constant fear, and the opportunity to gain even the slightest advantage over your enemy was worth massive risk.

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Book Name The Taking of K-129
Genre Military
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 2.64 MB

The Taking of K-129 (Josh Dean) Book Reviews 2024

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Excellent in all aspects. Perhaps the best account of the most daring classified operation of the Cold War, a technical achievement that in many ways rivaled our quest to land on the Moon.

Excellently written tale of how the most complex spy vessel came to be.. Told as if by Tracy Kidder (Among Schoolchildren)

Absolutely incredible. An amazing story, incredibly well told. Highly highly recommended.

The Taking of K-129. I have read several accounts of this amazing event, and this is by far the best telling. The accomplishments of the individuals who designed, and built the ship, the capture vehicle, and those who actually were a direct part of the recovery effort cannot be understated. I still remember learning about undersea mining of nodules in science class. I found the book to be a fun read, and finished it in a day. It reads like a Tom Clancy novel, except it really happened! I would recommend this book to anyone.

Just ok. Not much more in here that you can find by reading a Wikipedia article.

Lol. Lol book not out foogot

Great book. Amazing!!!!

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The The Taking of K-129 book written by Josh Dean was published on 05 September 2017, Tuesday in the Military category. A total of 130 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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