SHADOW DIVERS(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　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.

　　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.

　　“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.