Red Sparrow isn't just a fast-paced thriller - it's a first-rate novel as noteworthy for its superior style as for its gripping depiction of a secretive world. complex, high-stakes plot."- "Publishers Weekly, starred review" "The author, a veteran CIA field agent, liberally salts his thriller with realistic tradecraft, horrific villainy, and stunning plot twists as the opponents vie for control.An intense descent into a vortex of carnal passion, career brutality, and smart tradecraft, this thriller evokes the great Cold War era of espionage.Readers of bloodthirsty spy and suspense will welcome this debut from a writer who supersizes his spies."- "Library Journal (starred review)" "Veteran CIA operative-turned-novelist Matthews keeps the trouble popping in Red Sparrow, but relentless drama is just one of the high points of this sublime and sophisticated debut. Espionage aficionados will love this one."- "Booklist, starred review" "Matthews' first novel, a globe-trotting spy thriller, features enough action to satisfy even the most demanding of adrenaline junkies.The author's CIA background and the smart dialogue make this an entertaining tale for spy-novel enthusiasts."- "Kirkus" "Matthews's exceptional first novel will please fans of classic spy fiction.The author's 33-year career in the CIA allows him to showcase all the tradecraft and authenticity that readers in this genre demand. Add to that list Jason Matthews, whose 33 years as a CIA field operative enriches his first novel with startling verisimilitude.That sense of authenticity, along with vividly drawn characters, much detail about tradecraft, and an appropriately convoluted plot make this a compelling and propulsive tale of spy-versus-spy.Red Sparrow is greater than the sum of its fine parts. I have not read a more exciting, gripping novel in a long time."-Doug Stanton "author of Horse Soldiers" "Many spy novelists, including Ian Fleming and John le Carré, actually worked as intelligence agents. Halfway through, I was afraid Vladimir Putin would find out I was reading Red Sparrow and have me arrested. I learned more about the former Soviets and the new Russians, and about our US of A, than I ever gleaned from the hardest-working journalists today. If it doesn't supplant The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as the next mammoth read, ad if it doesn't take its place alongside le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the love of literature and jaw-dropping thrills really is dead. "I read till eleven and woke up at five a.m. Authentic, tense, and entertaining, this novel introduces Jason Matthews as a major new American talent. Brilliantly composed, Red Sparrow is a masterful spy tale. Packed with insider detail, this novel brims with Matthews's life experience of espionage, counterintelligence, spy recruitment, and cyber-warfare. Page by page, veteran CIA officer Jason Matthews's Red Sparrow delights, 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". Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC. As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate's game reaches a deadly crossroads. 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.Īs 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. 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. In the grand spy-tale tradition of John le Carré.comes this shocking thriller written with insider detail known only to a veteran CIA officer. I loved this book and could not put it down. Very few people know about it, but Jason Matthews does, and his thrilling Red Sparrow takes us deep inside this treacherous world. "A great and dangerous spy-game is being played today between Russian intelligence and the CIA. Now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!
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