The Kremlin's Candidate by Photographer Jason Matthews

The Kremlin's Candidate by Photographer Jason Matthews

Jason Matthews's high-powered, seductive third novel, with a narrative ripped from tomorrow's headlines, not only continues Dominika and Nate's deadly entanglements, but also illustrates with terrifying reality how Russian espionage can install spies in the most sensitive places of power.The novel opens with Russian president Vladimir Putin preparing the clandestine assassination of a high-ranking US official.

Dominika, Nate, and their CIA colleagues discover the conspiracy and must uncover the traitor before he or she can reveal that Dominika has been spying for the CIA for years.Any leak, any blunder, will identify her as a CIA asset, resulting in a one-way ticket to a Moscow execution cellar.Along the way, Matthews, a thirty-three-year veteran of the CIA and winner of the Edgar Award for Bess, must unmask

Finally, during a power weekend with Putin's inner circle, the lines of danger meet on the breathtaking billion-dollar presidential palace on the Black Sea. Would Nate sacrifice himself to save Dominika? Is she willing to give up herself to defend Nate? Do they both go down?

This stunning conclusion to Jason Matthews's New York Times bestselling Red Sparrow Trilogy, dubbed a primer in twenty-first-century spyingterrifically good (The New York Times Book Review), confirms the critical acclaim Matthews gained for the first two novels, with comparisons to John le Carr' and Ian Fleming.

Jason Matthews was a member of the Operations Directorate of the Central Intelligence Agency. He served in several overseas locations, spoke six foreign languages, and engaged in covert national security intelligence collection, specialized in denied-area operations, over the course of his thirty-three-year tenure. Matthews carried out recruitment operations in Soviet-Eastern Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. He worked with foreign partners in counterproliferation and counterterrorism activities as Chief of several CIA Stations. Red Sparrow, his first novel, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and adapted into a blockbuster motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence.

In Palace of Treason and The Kremlin's Candidate, he completed the Red Sparrow trilogy. Jason Matthews died in the year 2021.