num_pages: 434
description: In the grand spy-tale tradition of John le Carr comes this shocking thriller written with insider detail known only to a veteran CIA officer. In present-day Russia ruled by blue-eyed unblinking President Vladimir Putin Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become a Sparrow a trained seductress Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash a young CIA officer who handles the Agencys most important Russian mole.Spies have long relied on the honey trap whereby vulnerable men and women are intimately compromised. Dominika learns these techniques of sexpionage in Russias secret Sparrow School hidden outside of Moscow. As the action careens between Russia Finland Greece Italy and the United States Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills tradecraft andinevitablyforbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret allegiances are made and broken Dominika and Nates game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington DC.Page by page veteran CIA officer Jason Matthewss Red Sparrow delights and terrifies and fascinates all while delivering an unforgettable cast from a sadistic Spetsnaz mechanic who carries out Putins murderous schemes to the weary CIA Station Chief who resists Washington cake-eaters to MARBLE the priceless Russian mole. Packed with insider detail and written with brio this tour-de-force novel brims with Matthewss life experience including his knowledge of espionage counterintelligence surveillance tradecraft spy recruitment cyber-warfare the Russian use of spy dust and covert communications. Brilliantly composed and elegantly constructed Red Sparrow is a masterful spy tale lifted from the dossiers of intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. Authentic tense and entertaining this novel introduces Jason Matthews as a major new American talent.
language: English
title: Red Sparrow
publisher: Scribner