By Naveed Jamali

The attention-grabbing tale of a tender American beginner who helped the FBI bust a Russian undercover agent in New York—sold in ten nations and in a huge deal to twentieth Century Fox.

For 3 nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on the United States for the Russians, buying and selling thumb drives of delicate technical facts for envelopes of money, promoting out his personal loved kingdom throughout noisy eating place tables and in quiet parking plenty. Or so the Russians believed. in reality, this younger American civilian used to be a covert double agent operating with the FBI. The chilly conflict wasn’t rather over. It had simply long gone high-tech.

How to trap a Russian Spy is the distinct tale of ways one younger man’s post-college experience grew to become a real-life US counter-intelligence coup. He had no earlier counter-espionage adventure. every little thing he knew approximately undercover paintings, he’d realized from Miami Vice and Magnum P.I. reruns and flicks like Ronin, undercover agent Game, and something with Bond or Bourne within the identify. And but, hoping to achieve adventure to turn into a army intelligence officer, he confident the FBI and the Russians they can belief him. With allure, crafty, and an incredible load of naiveté, he matched wits with a veteran Russian military-intelligence officer who was once recruiting spies on American soil, out-maneuvering the Russian undercover agent and his secret-hungry superiors. alongside the way in which, Jamali and his FBI handlers forged an extraordinary mild on espionage actions on the Russian challenge to the United international locations in manhattan and earned an excellent US win within the escalating hostilities among Moscow and Washington.

Now, Jamali unearths the complete attractive tale in the back of his double-agent adventure—from coded signs on Craigslist to the Russian spy’s propensity for Hooters’ Buffalo wings. Cinematic, news-breaking, and wildly interesting, How to seize a Russian Spy is an armchair undercover agent myth dropped at lifestyles. movie rights bought to twentieth Century Fox for director Marc Webb (The notable Spider-Man, 500 Days of Summer).

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I quickly scanned the area, making sure no one was around. And I set the phone on the hood of a sleek black BMW M6 parked next to us. ” I asked Oleg. “Thank you,” he said. I had passed that test. ” I asked him. Oleg stepped out of the Jeep and stood next to me behind the Corvette. I opened the trunk. The cockpit manuals were just where I’d left them. Oleg stared for a moment. Then he picked up the manuals, confirming that both of them were there. One was for the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. The other was for the E-2 Hawkeye early-warning aircraft.

They didn’t come to New York to toil in sweatshops or stand by pushcarts on the Lower East Side, like generations of immigrants before them. They came for graduate school, my mother from France, my father from Pakistan. They met at a party near Columbia University in 1968, just as the administration building was being occupied by student protestors, including one young man in a very cool pair of sunglasses who plopped himself in President Grayson Kirk’s leather chair and fired up an oversize cigar.

Take one look at my olive complexion. That’s the future face of America, not the goofy grin of Beaver Cleaver or Richie Cunningham. I was born here, though my mom and dad were not. They arrived as immigrants from deeply chaotic places. They didn’t come to New York to toil in sweatshops or stand by pushcarts on the Lower East Side, like generations of immigrants before them. They came for graduate school, my mother from France, my father from Pakistan. They met at a party near Columbia University in 1968, just as the administration building was being occupied by student protestors, including one young man in a very cool pair of sunglasses who plopped himself in President Grayson Kirk’s leather chair and fired up an oversize cigar.

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