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020 $a9781476788838 (pbk.) :$cNT$560
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050 00$aE901.1.J25$bA3 2015
082 04$a327.12092$222
100 1 $aJamali, Naveed,$eauthor.
245 10$aHow to catch a Russian spy :$bthe true story of an American civilian turned double agent /$cNaveed Jamali and Ellis Henican.
250 $aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner,$c2015.
300 $aviii, 294 p. ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $aNew Americans -- Family Business -- Finding Me -- America Attacked -- Navy Dreams -- Commander Lino -- Special Agents -- Meeting Oleg -- Networkcentric -- Out and About -- Why Spy -- Gaining Control -- Agent Trust -- Second Try -- Worthy Adversaries -- El Dorado -- Easy Lies -- Speeding Up -- Parking Garage -- Grilling Oleg -- Thumb Drive -- Blowing It -- Hooters -- Change of Plans -- Phony Arrest -- Victory Lap -- Ensign Jamali.
520 2 $a"In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. This American had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, movies, video games, and TV. And yet, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo, he ended up at the center of a highly successful counterintelligence operation that targeted Russian espionage in America. How to Catch a Russian Spy is an American civilian's first-person account of how a post-college adventure became a real-life U.S. intelligence coup. For four nerve-wracking years, he worked as adouble agent, spying on America for the Russians, trading cash for sensitive U.S. military secrets, handing over thumb-drives of valuable technical data, pretending to sell out his country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parkinglots. Now, for the first time, he will reveal the fascinating mechanics behind his double-agent operation--from cutting-edge spy gear to coded signals on Craigslist to the Russians' propensity for Hooters' buffalo wings--that helped disrupt Russia's New York-based espionage apparatus and forced Moscow to reassign its top operatives. Cinematic, harrowing, and wildly entertaining, How to Catch a Russian Spy is every armchair espionage fan's ultimate fantasy come to fruition"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10$aJamali, Naveed.
650 0$aSpies$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aEspionage$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century.
650 0$aEspionage, Russian$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y21st century.
650 0$aSpies$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.
651 0$aUnited States$xForeign relations$zRussia (Federation).
651 0$aRussia (Federation)$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
700 1 $aHenican, Ellis,$eauthor.