Three Minutes To Doomsday

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 US 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