Books and beyond

The Lakewood Library book group recently read Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson, a  fascinating true adventure story. If you like non-fiction that reads like fiction, a fast pace, creative and insightful writing, and a tale which solves a decades-old mystery, then this a book for you. The author, a longtime contributor to Esquire magazine, follows a group of deep sea divers through 11 years of nerve-racking diving and dogged research in the process of locating and identifying the wreck of a German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey. Eventually, the wreck claims the lives of three divers and two marriages, but it also is the catalyst for the development of a strong friendship between two men who share a philosophy of excelling and pushing themselves to the limit to find the truth.