Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!In the tradition of John le Carré, 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.
State intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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."
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476706139 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476706131 |
| Title | Red Sparrow |
| Author | Jason Matthews |
| Series | Red Sparrow Trilogy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2014-12-09 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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