The pulse-pounding sequel to the best-selling, Edgar Award-winning Red Sparrow that The New York Times Book Review called “terrifically good”: Star-crossed spies Dominika Egorova and CIA agent Nate Nash return in a cat-and-mouse race to the finish.
Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow and the Center, the headquarters of her service. She finds things worse than when she left. She despises the men she must serve, the oligarchs and crooks and thugs of Putin’s Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington’s most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin.
As she expertly dodges exposure, Dominika deals with a murderously psychotic boss; survives an Iranian assassination attempt; escapes a counterintelligence ambush; rescues an arrested agent and exfiltrates him out of Russia; and has a chilling midnight conversation in her nightgown with President Putin in one of the tsar’s palaces. Complicating the risks is the fact that Dominika is in love with her CIA handler, Nate Nash, and their lust is as dangerous to both of them as committing espionage in Moscow. And when a mole in the SVR finds Dominika’s name on a restricted list of sources, it is a virtual death sentence. She must face off alone against her psycho boss, who’s got an eight-inch knife up his sleeve.
Just as fast paced, heart pounding, and action packed as Red Sparrow, Jason Matthews’ second novel proves he is “an insider’s insider and a masterful storyteller” (Vince Flynn, number-one New York Times best-selling author).
Modern espionage thriller, with recipes. Well crafted plot with beautiful turns of phrase to the point where it is almost overly literary. The characters are nicely drawn, characters you care about, individuals with nuance. The spying, for both Main Enemies, sounds like stuff real spies would concern themselves with these days, highly specific real world information quests etc. done with a (sometimes dubious) team, not lone wolf James Bond preventing a laser weapon on the moon. I also like that the Russian leader in THIS novel does…
Great Expectations Fulfilled This is a masterful novel of spying and international intrigue, played out in today’s world. As an avid reader of mysteries, thrillers and of the spy king, John Le Carre, I rank this among the best! The characters here are drawn in great detail and the storyline is brilliant. In early moments of the book I wished that so many Russian words had not been used (translated, of course), but gradually became accustomed to them and realized how much they enlivened the story. I caution you, this is…
A worthy sequel to the fabulous “Red Sparrow” Itâs a worthy sequel to Matthewsâ stellar âRed Sparrow.â He keeps up the tension and develops the characters introduced in the first book â the ones he hasnât killed off.CIA agents Nate, Gable and Forsyth donât hear from Dominika for months after her return to Russia in the ill-fated spy swap which cost agent MARBLE his life. Dominika finally emerges, and survives yet another hit attempt ordered by the man now her boss, the repulsive interrogator Zyuganov. She has emerged with a…