Capt. David C. Minton III USN (Ret.) was commanding officer of the USS Guardfish (SSN 612) in 1972 when the Soviet Navy sortied five nuclear missile submarines to the South China Sea in response to the United States mining of North Vietnamese ports. Minton trailed a Soviet nuclear guided missile submarine, K 184, for twenty-eight days and 6,100 nautical miles.
Years later he was able to contact the commanding officer of the Soviet submarine, Rear Adm. Alfred S. Berzin USSR (Ret.), and they were able to co-author this book.