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 and can be reached via the Internet at www.robertkurson.com.
"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
" 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 quixoticdescent 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
"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
" 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 quixoticdescent 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
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