Shadow Divers

byRobert Kurson

The True Adventure of Two Remarkable Men Who Solved An Incredible Second World War Mystery

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For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. But in 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid waters of the Atlantic: a Second World War German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires and human bones.

No identifying marks were visible. No historian, expert or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found, and the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew there.

Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest of increasingly perilous diving and painstaking archival research to solve the mystery. Some of them would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and with the drowned U-boat sailors – former enemies of their country.

Bestselling author Robert Kurson’s account of this quest is thrilling, vivid and emotionally complex. It’s a story of persistence, ingenuity and a shared obsession.

The narrative is so well paced and constructed that it develops a hypnotic, almost suffocating tension … But it is far more than mere adventure; this is also a haunting, painful story of obsession and its attendant costs. For once, the comparisons with The Perfect Storm are not out of place; this is a memorable story, beautifully told.

Neil Hanson, Sunday Times

About Robert Kurson

Robert Kurson is the bestselling author of Shadow Divers, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 24 weeks and translated into 22 languages. He began his career as an attorney, having graduated from Harvard Law School, and his stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, and Esquire, where he won a National Magazine Award in 2006 and was a contributing editor. Robert has also written three further New York Times bestsellers.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405990578
  • Length: 416 pages
  • Price: £7.99
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