Scorpion Down is the shocking untold story of an American submarine torpedoed at the height of the Cold War—and the decades long cover-up that followed.

Military reporting specialist Ed Offley tells the true story of the USS Scorpion for the first time. In exhilarating narrative, he tells the dramatic story of a secret battle that could have brought about World War III, and conclusively demonstrates that the Navy’s official story about the Scorpion incident—from the frantic open-ocean hunt for the wreckage to a Court of Inquiry’s final conclusions—is nothing more than a carefully-constructed series of lies.