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　　In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian

Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure

in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great

historical mystery–and make history themselves.

For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more

than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents,

braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating

through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves

to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once

in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.

But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were

prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the

frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a

World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland

of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones–all buried under

decades of accumulated sediment.

No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few

artifacts brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or

government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In

fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not

be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location.

Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a

quest 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. As the men’s marriages

frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their dives grew

more daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the

identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew.

Author Robert Kurson’s account of this quest is at once thrilling

and emotionally complex, and it is written with a vivid sense of

what divers actually experience when they meet the dangers of the

ocean’s underworld. The story of Shadow Divers often seems too

amazing to be true, but it all happened, two hundred thirty feet

down, in the deep blue sea.

From the Hardcover edition.

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　　ROBERT KURSON earned a bachelor's degree in

philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, then a law degree from

Harvard Law School. After working as a features reporter for the

Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago magazine, he moved to

Esquire as as a contributing editor. His award-winning

stories have also appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York

Times Magazine, and other publications. He lives in the Chicago

suburbs.

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　　“An engrossing saga of the suspenseful, intriguing, and

dangerous underwater investigation of a Mystery U-boat.”

　　–CLIVE CUSSLER

　　“Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, about the divers exploring a

sunken shipwreck off the New Jersey coast, is a gripping account of

real-life adventurers and a real-life mystery. In addition to being

compellingly readable on every page, the book offers a unique

window on the deep, almost reckless nature of the human quest to

know.”

　　–SCOTT TUROW, author of Reversible Errors

　　“A tremendously suspenseful story of discovery that comes as

close as any book could to providing the reader with approximate

sensations of deep sea diving and of life on a submarine at war,

and that leaves us with a hell of an impression of the grit, guts,

and compassion of a U-boat crew and the two American divers who

risked everything to solve the mystery of their last

mission.”

　　–JOHN MCCAIN, author of Faith of My Fathers and Why Courage

Matters

　　“Robert Kurson’s status as an undiscovered pleasure among Chicago

readers is about to change, I suspect, in a hurry. Shadow Divers is

so culturally astute and terrifyingly suspenseful that it should

reach the sort of audience John Berendt, Susan Orlean, Jon Krakauer

and Laura Hillenbrand have recently earned. Kurson’s new focus is

the larger historical world--a world of U-Boats, forensics and

lung-crushing pressure--and his prose is, as always, plain

gorgeous.”

　　–JAMES MCMANUS, author of Positively Fifth Street

　　“A winning tale exceedingly well told, Shadow Divers takes us on

a dangerous and seemingly quixotic descent into the murk–and then,

in a fog of nitrogen narcosis, brings us back to the surface with a

richer, fuller fathoming of a history we only thought we

knew.”

　　–HAMPTON SIDES, author of Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of

World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission

　　From the Hardcover edition.