Three minutes to Doomsday

Resumen del libro

It is 1988 and Florida-based FBI agent Joe Navarro divides his time between SWAT assignments, flying air reconnaissance, and working counter-intelligence. A body-language expert with an uncanny ability to "read" those he interrogates, Navarro is known as super-intense - an agent whose work ethic quickly burns out partners. He craves an assignment that will get him noticed by the FBI top brass but then again, as he'll come to learn: be careful what you wish for .

. . It was while on a routine assignment - interviewing a `person of interest', a former US soldier named Rod Ramsay with links to another soldier, Clyde Conrad, recently arrested in Germany as a traitor - that Navarro thought he smelled a rat.

He noticed a tic in Ramsay's hand when Conrad's name was mentioned. Not a lot to go on, but enough for Navarro to insist that an investigation be opened. What followed was extraordinary - and unique in the annals of espionage detection - a game of cat-and-mouse played at the highest level: on one side, an FBI agent who must not reveal that he suspects his target; on the other, a traitor, a seller of his country's secrets, whose weakness is the thrill he gets from sparring with his inquisitor.

To prise from Ramsay the full extent of the damage he had wrought, Navarro had to pre-choreograph every interview because Ramsay was exceptionally intelligent, with the second highest IQ ever recorded by the U.S. Army. It would become an interrogation that literally pitted genius against genius - a battle of wits fought against one of the most turbulent periods of the 20th century - the demise and eventual collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union - and the very real possibility that Russia's leaders, in a last desperate bid to alter history's trajectory, might engage in all-out war.

As Navarro was to learn over the course of nearly fifty exhausting and mind-bending interviews and interrogations, Ramsay had handed the Soviets the knowledge needed to destroy America and its western allies... In Three Minutes to Doomsday, Joe Navarro tells this extraordinary story for the first time - a story of the exposure and breaking of one of the most damaging espionage rings in US history whose treachery threatened the entire world.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p A los 23 años de edad y siendo ya policía, Joe navarro fue invitado a unirse al FBI, oferta que aceptó inmediatamente convirtiéndose en uno de los agentes más jóvenes en toda la historia de este organismo de investigación. En los 25 años que permaneció trabajando para el FBI como supervisor de contrainteligencia y lucha contra el terrorismo, logró refinar y llevar la aplicación práctica de la ciencia de la comunicación no verbal a unos niveles nunca antes alcanzados, cosechando grandes éxitos en la identificación de espías y terroristas.x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Tras dejar el FBI, sus conocimientos prácticos en este campo lo han convertido en el especialista más solicitado por los directivos de grandes empresas en todo el mundo. En la actualidad, además de realizar trabajos de consultoría para grandes corporaciones, es profesor de la Universidad Saint Leo, en Florida, es también un aclamado conferenciante que imparte cursos y talleres por todo el mundo y, al mismo tiempo, un prolífico escritor, que colabora con importantes medios de comunicación y ha publicado varios libros de éxito.x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Joe Navarro vive en Tampa, Florida.x{0026}lt;/p