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Very few people know about it, including many of our politicians in Washington. "A great and dangerous spy-game is being played today between Russian intelligence and the CIA. "The author's CIA background and the smart dialogue make this an entertaining tale for spy-novel enthusiasts." - Kirkus

Readers of bloodthirsty spy and suspense will welcome this debut from a writer who supersizes his spies." - Library Journal An intense descent into a vortex of carnal passion, career brutality, and smart tradecraft, this thriller evokes the great Cold War era of espionage and adds startling touches such as recipes and a main character with synesthesia. The author's 33-year career in the CIA allows him to showcase all the tradecraft and authenticity that readers in this genre demand." - Publishers Weekly Espionage aficionados will love this one. Red Sparrow is greater than the sum of its fine parts. Locales including Moscow, Helsinki, Rome, and Athens seem knowingly evoked, and each brief chapter concludes with a recipe for some food a character has just eaten. 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. military and, against all odds, to return to Moscow as the new-generation penetration of Putin's intelligence service.

Seeking revenge against her soulless masters, Dominika begins a fatal double life, recruited by the CIA to ferret out a high-level traitor in Washington hunt down a Russian illegal buried deep in the U.S. 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 valuable mole in Moscow. 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. In today's Russia, dominated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence.