Red Star Rogue By Kenneth Sewell with Clint Richmond (273 pages (plus extensive notes), photos) Reviewer:  Bernie Ditter Overall Rating: Three stars--Recommended. A solid effort. Sub-titled "The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S." this joint effort by Messrs. Sewell and Richmond sets forth the interesting hypothesis that the K129, the famous Soviet submarine lost in 1968 in the Pacific and recovered by the Glomar Explorer in 1974, was commandeered by a rogue team of specialists from Moscow with the express purpose of launching a nuclear missile targeting Pearl Harbor. The purported objective was to convince the USA that China, an emerging nuclear power threatening the Soviet Union, had launched the missile thereby starting a war between their two greatest enemies and emerging the better for it. The authors have amassed an enormous amount of information to support their theory ranging from documents from both the USA and the former Soviet Union, interviews with survivors and families of survivors (although no survivors of the K129), speculation based on the technology of the time and the history of tracking the Soviet Submarines. Ostensibly amid the fail safes built into the launching protocols included one that detonated an explosive device that resulted in the sinking of the submarine. Although a sweet irony for those attempting the rogue launch sadly a death sentence for the crew and officers. The ultimate irony, if the proposition is true, is that the discovery of the submarine and from that the discovery of the plot to destroy Pearl Harbor was leveraged by Dr. Kissinger and President Nixon to effect a dialog with China opening the door for the west and détente with Russia beginning a restructuring of the relationship between the three superpowers. This larger intrigue is almost as large as the original theory. The conspiracy theorists will love this book. Those that find it difficult to believe that literally thousands of people can keep a secret may view it skeptically. This reviewer suggests that the writers make a damn convincing case for President Reagan's "Trust but Verify". Regrettably, as the point is made in the book, our enemies today are not always nations but causes. To do so is not always possible. Availability: Amazon.com