HOSTILE WATERS The Cold War was nearly over by 1986, yet under the sea the deadly  game of hide-and-seek played by Soviet and American submarines  continued unabated.  Off the east coast of America, an aging Soviet ballistic missile  sub, a "boomer," suffered a crippling accident, coming within moments  of a nuclear meltdown.  Her reactors exploded, the radioactivity  released into the Gulf Stream would have dwarfed the Chernobyl  disaster.  This is the gripping, true story of the young Soviet sailors who  fought to save their submarine, risking fire, smoke, poison gas, and  intense radioactivity.  Their secret struggle and sacrifice saved the  American coast from nuclear catastrophe.  Told in the words of the survivors, it is a story never before revealed outside the submarine community.  Hostile Waters reads like a page-turning thriller, a Tom Clancy tale of underwater intrigue and terror, but this story really happened.  The Hunt for Red October was a novel, Hostile Waters is true.