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The fascinating report of a young American amateur who helped the FBI bust a Russian spy in NY - bought from 10 countries and in a major package with 20th Century Fox. For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, retailing out his own much loved country across noisy restaurant dining tables and in noiseless parking lots. Roughly the Russians believed. In fact this young American civilian was a covert double agent working with the FBI. The Cool War wasn't really over. It experienced just gone high tech. How to Catch a Russian Spy is the one-of-a-kind report of how one young man's post-college excursion became a real-life US counterintelligence coup. He previously no prior counterespionage experience. Everything he realized about undercover work he'd discovered from Miami Vice and Magnum PI reruns and videos like Ronin, Spy Game, and anything with Relationship or Bourne in the title. And yet, wanting to gain experience to become a navy intelligence official, he persuaded the FBI and the Russians they could trust him. With charm, cunning, and a big weight of naiveté, he matched up wits with a experienced Russian military-intelligence official who was recruiting spies on American ground, outmaneuvering the Russian spy and his secret-hungry superiors. Along the way Jamali and his FBI handlers cast a unusual light on espionage activities at the Russian Objective to the US in NY and earned a good US earn in the escalating hostilities between Moscow and Washington. Now Jamali reveals the whole engaging report behind his double-agent excursion - from coded alerts on Craigslist to the Russian spy's propensity for Hooters' Buffalo wings. Cinematic, news-breaking, and wildly entertaining, How to Catch a Russian Spy is an armchair spy illusion taken to life. Film rights sold to 20th Century Fox for director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man, 500 Days of Summer time).