In contemporary Russia, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova has been drafted to become a “Sparrow”-a spy trained in the art of seduction to elicit information from their marks. Hails, this is a "sublime and sophisticated debut.a first-rate novel as noteworthy for its superior style as for its gripping depiction of a secretive world.Now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!įrom the New York Times bestselling author and veteran CIA officer Jason Matthews comes the electrifying modern spy thriller Red Sparrow.
Taking place in today's Russia, still ruled with an iron fist by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin,ĭisplays author Jason Matthews's insider knowledge of espionage, counter-espionage, surveillance tradecraft, recruiting spies, interrogation, and intelligence gathering.
Dominika and Nathaniel's impossible love affair and twisted spy game come to a deadly conclusion in the shocking climax of this electrifying, up-to-the minute spy thriller. Seeking revenge against her soulless masters, Dominika begins a fateful double life, recruited by the CIA to ferret out a high-level traitor in Washington hunt down a Russian illegal buried deep in the US military and, against all odds, to return to Moscow as the new-generation penetration of Putin's intelligence service. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and, inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America's most valuable mole in Moscow. Drafted against her will to become a "Sparrow," a trained seductress in the service, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. State intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence. ), written with the insider detail that only a veteran CIA operative could know-and shortlisted for an Edgar Award. In the tradition of John le Carre, the bestselling, impossible-to-put-down, espionage thriller that is "a primer in twenty-first century spying" (
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