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June 2013
On Sale: June 4, 2013
448 pages
ISBN: 1476706123
EAN: 9781476706122
Kindle: B008J4PK86
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Suspense | Thriller
IN THE GRAND SPY-TALE TRADITION OF JOHN LE CARRÉ…comes this
shocking debut 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 Agency’s 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 Russia’s
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, and—inevitably—forbidden passion that
threatens not just their lives but those of others as well.
As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and
Nate’s 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 Matthews’s Red
Sparrow delights and terrifies and fascinates, all while
delivering an unforgettable cast, from a sadistic Spetsnaz
“mechanic” who carries out Putin’s 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 Matthews’s 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.
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