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Very few people know about it, but Jason Matthews does, and his thrilling Red Sparrow takes us deep inside this treacherous world. He’s an insider’s insider. And he is also a masterful storyteller. I loved this book and could not put it down. Neither will you.” —Vince Flynn 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. 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. 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. Spies have long relied on the “honey trap,” whereby vulnerable men and women are intimately compromised. Dominika learns these techniques of “sexpionage” in Russia’s secret “Sparrow School,” hidden outside of Moscow. As 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. As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate’s game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC. Page by page, veteran CIA officer Jason Matthews’s Red Sparrow delights and 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” to MARBLE, the priceless Russian mole. Packed with insider detail and written with brio, this tour-de-force novel brims with Matthews’s life experience, including his knowledge of espionage, counterintelligence, surveillance tradecraft, spy recruitment, cyber-warfare, the Russian use of “spy dust,” and covert communications. Brilliantly composed and elegantly constructed, Red Sparrow is a masterful spy tale lifted from the dossiers of intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. Authentic, tense, and entertaining, this novel introduces Jason Matthews as a major new American talent. Review: Spies and more spies! - Who Is Spying On Whom? By Bob Gelms Jason Mathews has joined a very exclusive club of former real-live-in-the-flesh-honest-to-God spies who have come to write about espionage as fiction just like John le Carre, Ian Fleming and Graham Greene, to name a few you might have heard of. Mathews is an ex CIA spy of some 33 years and you can tell he’s experienced in real live spy craft just by reading a few pages of his first novel, Red Sparrow. I became totally convinced while reading the novel that real spies acted just like Mr. Mathews’ characters in the book. He’s very, very good. The book tells the story of the hauntingly beautiful Dominika Egorova. She starts out as the prima ballerina in a Russian dance company. Owing to an incident involving a jealous rival in the company, Dominika can no longer dance and she is set adrift until her beloved father passes away. It is then that her somewhat wicked uncle gets her involved with the Russian clandestine service. She is eventually enrolled in a school that teaches beautiful girls how to seduce vulnerable spies into becoming double agents for the Russians. The girls who graduate from this school are called Red Sparrows. The training is quite explicit. Since there is a Russian high up on the food chain who is spying for the Americans, Dominika is sent to Helsinki to seduce an American spy named Nathaniel Nash to see if she can find out who the double agent is. Nash is the double agent’s case officer. Not to be outdone, the Russians have a double agent high up on the political food chain in America spying for them. You almost need a scorecard to keep track on who is spying for whom. The plot becomes very involved but Mr. Mathews keeps the reader informed and abreast of the situation so it’s not hard to follow what’s happening. The book is filled with tradecraft, as they call it in the spy biz, and there were a few things that surprised me. The spy agencies on both sides eventually identify the spies who are working against them. There is an unwritten understanding that death will not be visited upon the opposition. But the spies still have to go to unbelievable lengths to lose the people following them. This can take up to 10 hours and is especially exhausting and exasperating when they often only get a few fleeting minutes with their contact. The spies on both sides are unusually good at their jobs. It is very much like a three-dimensional game of chess being played in the dark. I’m sure I wouldn’t want to be a spy but it sure is a lot of fun reading about them. You move to counter a move you think is three moves down the line happening in another part of the world. These spies need special brains to hold all the subplots apart in their minds. It’s thrilling. Dominika, in addition to being very beautiful, is exceptionally smart and good at reading people. She has a leg up on this facility of hers because she has synesthesia, a real neurological condition that manifests itself in a variety of ways almost always involving colors. She can see the color of the aura surrounding everyone around her. Different colors mean different things and she uses this ability to great effect. Even to the point of saving her life. She also has, and I’m struggling with how to put this without revealing too much, a physically violent temper. When she gets angry sometimes people get hurt…a lot! Vladimir Putin has been ruling Russia as president or prime minister for the last 16 years. It would seem he has a stranglehold, almost literally, on the office for as long as he wants it. Red Sparrow seems to indicate that modern Russia is not much of a communist state. It has, in fact, more in common with the czars in Russia’s past than with Lenin or Stalin. It is a modern version of an old fashion oligarchy with the rich ruling as they see fit and the Russian mobsters acting as their enforcement arm. It is in this milieu that the novel lives and breathes. Red Sparrow is the first installment of a series featuring the exploits of Dominika Egorova and Nate Nash. If you like novels of espionage don’t miss this one. It is a must read. The second installment, Palace of Treason, is a humdinger. I’ll write about that one in the next issue. Dasvidaniya! Review: Good Spy Novel, Some Flaws - I enjoy good spy fiction; I read 8-10 spy novels each year. I think of spy fiction as represented by a spectrum with Vince Flynn and Lee Child at one end, and Le Carre at the other. Le Carre stories are very character driven with strong political opinions clearly stated. The prose is always excellent, very descriptive, the story builds very slowly, the climax is always satisfying but sometimes disappointing, the characters are often anti-heroes, and there is only one climax. At the opposing end (Flynn et al), the stories are very plot driven with lots of action and the protagonists are out to save the globe; there are multiple climaxes. Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews fits somewhere in the middle. It mostly feels authentic - Matthews is former CIA - and the book has been well researched. Whether the scenes take place in Athens or at a border crossing in Estonia, you feel that Matthews has been there and is describing what he has seen. The story revolves around a young CIA agent who has had some field successes but still has some maturing to do. We concurrently follow a young woman, Dominika, on the Russian side who is on a fast track up the spy ladder; she is very reminiscent of one of Flynn's and Child's superagents. Each is assigned the task of recruiting the other. The first half of the story is fairly slow and it gradually becomes more interesting. I often had the feeling I could see where this story was going but on occasion it turned in an unexpected direction. There were a few aspects of the plot and characters I didn't particularly care for. To avoid spoilers, I will list only a few. Domi has a special sense, not like a 6th sense, more like a 7th; the author makes the case that though rare it is real. Perhaps, but I thought it a bit silly and distracting. One of the characters speaks very insubordinately to officers in the military hierarchy and though this is explained I did not feel it credible. A "canary" trick is employed to fool the opposition; I would have thought that went out in the 60's. It seemed to be that the author, more than once, took advantage of this book, to take some heart felt shots at the FBI, even to the point of ridicule. And why are there recipes for a food item mentioned in the book at the end of everyone of the 40 or so chapters?? And finally, I thought the climax was a bit too much, no subtlety. Remember "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold"? One climax, a twist, all wrapped up in one. It felt real all the way; this didn't. I am sure there will be a series here. Will I read #2? Maybe, maybe not. I think this is 3 1/2 stars, but I'll round up on the desertcart scale. ## Features - espionage danger sex double agents double crosses ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #4,274,010 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #117 in Espionage Thrillers (Books) #106,155 in American Literature (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 27,673 Reviews | ## Images ![Red Sparrow: A Novel (1) (The Red Sparrow Trilogy) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81nczcenJ0L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spies and more spies! *by R***S on September 21, 2015* Who Is Spying On Whom? By Bob Gelms Jason Mathews has joined a very exclusive club of former real-live-in-the-flesh-honest-to-God spies who have come to write about espionage as fiction just like John le Carre, Ian Fleming and Graham Greene, to name a few you might have heard of. Mathews is an ex CIA spy of some 33 years and you can tell he’s experienced in real live spy craft just by reading a few pages of his first novel, Red Sparrow. I became totally convinced while reading the novel that real spies acted just like Mr. Mathews’ characters in the book. He’s very, very good. The book tells the story of the hauntingly beautiful Dominika Egorova. She starts out as the prima ballerina in a Russian dance company. Owing to an incident involving a jealous rival in the company, Dominika can no longer dance and she is set adrift until her beloved father passes away. It is then that her somewhat wicked uncle gets her involved with the Russian clandestine service. She is eventually enrolled in a school that teaches beautiful girls how to seduce vulnerable spies into becoming double agents for the Russians. The girls who graduate from this school are called Red Sparrows. The training is quite explicit. Since there is a Russian high up on the food chain who is spying for the Americans, Dominika is sent to Helsinki to seduce an American spy named Nathaniel Nash to see if she can find out who the double agent is. Nash is the double agent’s case officer. Not to be outdone, the Russians have a double agent high up on the political food chain in America spying for them. You almost need a scorecard to keep track on who is spying for whom. The plot becomes very involved but Mr. Mathews keeps the reader informed and abreast of the situation so it’s not hard to follow what’s happening. The book is filled with tradecraft, as they call it in the spy biz, and there were a few things that surprised me. The spy agencies on both sides eventually identify the spies who are working against them. There is an unwritten understanding that death will not be visited upon the opposition. But the spies still have to go to unbelievable lengths to lose the people following them. This can take up to 10 hours and is especially exhausting and exasperating when they often only get a few fleeting minutes with their contact. The spies on both sides are unusually good at their jobs. It is very much like a three-dimensional game of chess being played in the dark. I’m sure I wouldn’t want to be a spy but it sure is a lot of fun reading about them. You move to counter a move you think is three moves down the line happening in another part of the world. These spies need special brains to hold all the subplots apart in their minds. It’s thrilling. Dominika, in addition to being very beautiful, is exceptionally smart and good at reading people. She has a leg up on this facility of hers because she has synesthesia, a real neurological condition that manifests itself in a variety of ways almost always involving colors. She can see the color of the aura surrounding everyone around her. Different colors mean different things and she uses this ability to great effect. Even to the point of saving her life. She also has, and I’m struggling with how to put this without revealing too much, a physically violent temper. When she gets angry sometimes people get hurt…a lot! Vladimir Putin has been ruling Russia as president or prime minister for the last 16 years. It would seem he has a stranglehold, almost literally, on the office for as long as he wants it. Red Sparrow seems to indicate that modern Russia is not much of a communist state. It has, in fact, more in common with the czars in Russia’s past than with Lenin or Stalin. It is a modern version of an old fashion oligarchy with the rich ruling as they see fit and the Russian mobsters acting as their enforcement arm. It is in this milieu that the novel lives and breathes. Red Sparrow is the first installment of a series featuring the exploits of Dominika Egorova and Nate Nash. If you like novels of espionage don’t miss this one. It is a must read. The second installment, Palace of Treason, is a humdinger. I’ll write about that one in the next issue. Dasvidaniya! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good Spy Novel, Some Flaws *by K***U on January 31, 2014* I enjoy good spy fiction; I read 8-10 spy novels each year. I think of spy fiction as represented by a spectrum with Vince Flynn and Lee Child at one end, and Le Carre at the other. Le Carre stories are very character driven with strong political opinions clearly stated. The prose is always excellent, very descriptive, the story builds very slowly, the climax is always satisfying but sometimes disappointing, the characters are often anti-heroes, and there is only one climax. At the opposing end (Flynn et al), the stories are very plot driven with lots of action and the protagonists are out to save the globe; there are multiple climaxes. Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews fits somewhere in the middle. It mostly feels authentic - Matthews is former CIA - and the book has been well researched. Whether the scenes take place in Athens or at a border crossing in Estonia, you feel that Matthews has been there and is describing what he has seen. The story revolves around a young CIA agent who has had some field successes but still has some maturing to do. We concurrently follow a young woman, Dominika, on the Russian side who is on a fast track up the spy ladder; she is very reminiscent of one of Flynn's and Child's superagents. Each is assigned the task of recruiting the other. The first half of the story is fairly slow and it gradually becomes more interesting. I often had the feeling I could see where this story was going but on occasion it turned in an unexpected direction. There were a few aspects of the plot and characters I didn't particularly care for. To avoid spoilers, I will list only a few. Domi has a special sense, not like a 6th sense, more like a 7th; the author makes the case that though rare it is real. Perhaps, but I thought it a bit silly and distracting. One of the characters speaks very insubordinately to officers in the military hierarchy and though this is explained I did not feel it credible. A "canary" trick is employed to fool the opposition; I would have thought that went out in the 60's. It seemed to be that the author, more than once, took advantage of this book, to take some heart felt shots at the FBI, even to the point of ridicule. And why are there recipes for a food item mentioned in the book at the end of everyone of the 40 or so chapters?? And finally, I thought the climax was a bit too much, no subtlety. Remember "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold"? One climax, a twist, all wrapped up in one. It felt real all the way; this didn't. I am sure there will be a series here. Will I read #2? Maybe, maybe not. I think this is 3 1/2 stars, but I'll round up on the Amazon scale. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Gripping Spy Thriller *by V***A on August 21, 2024* I'm thrilled to share my experience with Red Sparrow, a gripping spy thriller that had me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. As a fan of espionage novels, I was hooked from the very first page. Red Sparrow is a masterclass in storytelling, with a complex and intricate plot that keeps you guessing until the very end. The author's writing is superb, with vivid descriptions and well-developed characters that leap off the page. What I love most about this book is its authenticity. The author's research is impeccable, and the attention to detail is stunning. The story is full of twists and turns, with surprises at every corner. The characters are multidimensional and nuanced, with motivations that are both relatable and terrifying. The protagonist, Dominika Egorova, is a fascinating and complex character. Her transformation from a ballerina to a spy is both captivating and believable. The chemistry between Dominika and Nate Nash, the CIA agent, is palpable and adds an extra layer of tension to the story. I'm so impressed with the quality of this book, and I can tell it will stay with me for a long time. Red Sparrow is a must-read for fans of espionage thrillers, and I highly recommend it. **Pros:** * Gripping and suspenseful plot with plenty of twists and turns * Well-developed and nuanced characters * Authentic and well-researched * Captivating and believable storyline * A must-read for fans of espionage thrillers **Cons:** None! 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