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Red Sparrow

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by Jason Matthews
Jeremy Bobb
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After a decorated CIA career spanning 30 years, Jason Matthews makes his fiction debut with the espionage thriller Red Sparrow. Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova is a "sparrow," trained in both spy games and seduction. Her target is CIA operative Nathaniel Nash, and the two have an instant, passionate—and ultimately deadly—connection.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Red Sparrow

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 20, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781470345464
      • File size: 516438 KB
      • Duration: 17:55:54

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      RED SPARROW gives listeners a twofer. Not only is it an excellent espionage novel, but, strange as it may seem, we also hear a gourmet recipe after each chapter wherein that food is mentioned as part of the plot. Narrator Jeremy Bobb gives a sparkling, no-nonsense performance. A "sparrow" is a Russian agent who is trained to seduce an enemy of the opposite sex. Here, the enemy is a young CIA operative named Nate Nash who is handling a Russian general code-named "Marble." The only problem is that sparrow Dominika Egorova, who goes after Nash, does the unthinkable--she falls in love with him. Bobb's crisp narration speeds listeners through this complicated story, maintaining interest even though Nate and Dominika don't meet until a third of the story has unfolded. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 18, 2013
      Matthews’s exceptional first novel will please fans of classic spy fiction. In Moscow, CIA agent Nathaniel Nash is running the most valuable asset in the CIA’s stable, a major general in the SVR, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. After Nate nearly blows his agent’s cover, Nate’s chief reassigns him to the CIA station in Helsinki. Meanwhile, SVR deputy director Ivan “Vanya” Egorov decides to use his beautiful 25-year-old niece, Dominika Egorova, as bait in a honey trap designed to kill a Russian mobster who has publicly feuded with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Dominika likes this assignment well enough to ask her uncle to send her to spy school, where she excels. Diagnosed as a synesthete as a girl, Dominika has an unusual gift: she perceives sounds as colors and can tell if someone is lying by the color of his or her aura. After training, she sets out to find the Russian traitor Nate was running. The author’s 33-year career in the CIA allows him to showcase all the tradecraft and authenticity that readers in this genre demand. Recipes at the end of each chapter for a dish a character has eaten lend a homely culinary touch to the complex, high-stakes plot. 7-city author tour. Agent: Sloan Harris, International Creative Management.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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