Stuart Woodward's review of Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion

Stuart Woodward reviewed Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion by Ed Offley

Ed Offley: Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion (2007)

Review of 'Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This is an incredible book. Though the title is a complete spoiler this is the story of how the story of the sinking of the US nuclear submarine Scorpion was uncovered and the incredible secret undersea skirmishes during the Cold War that led to the sinking of both US and Soviet submarines.

It also covers one of the greatest US espionage stories of John Anthony Walker Jr., a United States Navy chief warrant officer and communications specialist, convicted of passing top secret naval documents to the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1985 and sentenced to life in prison for it. The author speculates about the connection between the two incidents.