Josh Dean

The Taking of K-129

Dutton/Penguin Random House

In 1968, a Russian submarine armed with three nuclear missiles vanished in the Pacific ocean. When the U.S. Navy discovered the sunken vessel, however, the CIA undertakes the largest and most daring covert operation in their history to recover the submarine using a mammoth ship supposedly belonging to Howard Hughes. In The Taking of K-129, Josh Dean, a contributor for GQ and Fast Company and the author of Show Dog, tells the almost unbelievable true-life tale of Cold War espionage at its height.