Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History by Navarro, Joe

Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History

An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War,...
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Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History by Navarro, Joe

Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History

$74.00

Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History

$74.00
Author: Joe Navarro
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War, this shocking insider's story shows how a massive giveaway of secret war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation.

In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest agents ever hired by the FBI, was dividing his time between SWAT assignments, flying air reconnaissance, and working counter-intelligence. But his real expertise was "reading" body language. He possessed an uncanny ability to glean the thoughts of those he interrogated.

So it was that, on a routine assignment to interview a "person of interest"--a former American soldier named Rod Ramsay--Navarro noticed his interviewee's hand trembling slightly when he was asked about another soldier who had recently been arrested in Germany on suspicion of espionage. That thin lead was enough for the FBI agent to insist to his bosses that an investigation be opened.

What followed is unique in the annals of espionage detection--a two-year-long battle of wits. The dueling antagonists: an FBI agent who couldn't overtly tip to his target that he suspected him of wrongdoing lest he clam up, and a traitor whose weakness was the enjoyment he derived from sparring with his inquisitor. Navarro's job was made even more difficult by his adversary's brilliance: not only did Ramsay possess an authentic photographic memory as well as the second highest IQ ever recorded by the US Army, he was bored by people who couldn't match his erudition. To ensure that the information flow would continue, Navarro had to pre-choreograph every interview, becoming a chess master plotting twenty moves in advance.

And the backdrop to this mental tug of war was the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the very real possibility that its leaders, in a last bid to alter the course of history, might launch a devastating attack. If they did, they would have Ramsay to thank, because as Navarro would learn over the course of forty-two mind-bending interviews, Ramsay had, by his stunning intelligence giveaways, handed the Soviets the ability to utterly destroy the US.

The story of a determined hero who pushed himself to jaw-dropping levels of exhaustion and who rallied his team to expose undreamed of vulnerabilities in America's defense, Three Minutes to Doomsday will leave the reader with disturbing thoughts of the risks the country takes even today with its most protected national secrets.

Author: Joe Navarro
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 04/18/2017
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781501128271


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2017

About the Author
Navarro, Joe: - For twenty-five years Joe Navarro was a Special Agent with the FBI in the area of counterintelligence, and he was a founding member of the FBI's elite National Security Division Behavioral Analysis Program, which focused on the behavior of spies, terrorists, and criminal behavior. Since retiring, Navarro has lectured widely on nonverbal communication and has been featured in major media outlets throughout the world. He is the author of Three Minutes to Doomsday and the international bestseller What Every BODY Is Saying. You can find him at JNForensics.com.

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