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An strong cat-and-mouse game enjoyed between two excellent men within the last days of the Chilly War, this shocking insider's tale shows how a considerable giveaway of key war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation. In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest realtors ever appointed by the FBI, was dividing his time between SWAT assignments, flying air reconnaissance, and working counterintelligence. But his real competence was "reading" body gestures. He possessed an uncanny ability to glean the thoughts of those he interrogated. So that it was that, on the routine project to interview a "person of interest" - a former American soldier called Fishing rod Ramsay - Navarro seen his interviewee's hands trembling marginally when he was asked about another soldier who possessed recently been arrested in Germany on suspicion of espionage. That skinny business lead was enough for the FBI agent to demand to his bosses that an investigation be exposed. What followed is exclusive in the annals of espionage recognition - a two-year-long battle of wits. The dueling antagonists: an FBI agent who couldn't overtly word of advice to his aim for that he suspected him of wrongdoing lest he clam up, and a traitor whose weakness was the fun he produced from sparring with his inquisitor. Navarro's job was made even more difficult by his adversary's brilliance: not only performed Ramsay own an genuine photographic storage area as well as the second highest IQ ever recorded by the US Army, he was bored stiff by people who couldn't match his erudition. To make sure that the information flow would continue, Navarro were required to pre-choreograph every interview, becoming a chess grasp plotting 20 steps in advance. And the background to the mental tug of conflict was the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the real opportunity that its leaders, in a last bid to alter the course of history, might start a devastating episode. If they performed, they might have Ramsay to thank, because as Navarro would learn during the period of 42 mind-bending interviews, Ramsay possessed, by his stunning intelligence giveaways, handed the Soviets the capability to utterly destroy the US. The story of the driven hero who forced himself to jaw-dropping degrees of exhaustion and who rallied his team to expose undreamed of vulnerabilities in America's security, Three Minutes to Doomsday will leave the listener with disturbing thoughts of the potential risks the country can take even today using its most protected countrywide secrets.
