Now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton In the tradition of John le Carr , the bestselling, impossible-to-put-down, espionage thriller that is a primer in twenty-first century spying ( The New York Times Book Review ), written with the insider detail that only a veteran CIA operative could know--and shortlisted for an Edgar Award.
As The Washington Post 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..
Taking place in today\'s Russia, still ruled with an iron fist by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Red Sparrow displays 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.
Now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton In the tradition of John le Carr , the bestselling, impossible-to-put-down, espionage thriller that is a primer in twenty-first century spying ( The New York Times Book Review ), written with the insider detail that only a veteran CIA operative could know--and shortlisted for an Edgar Award
