The Red Sparrow Trilogy: Red Sparrow : A Novel (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from rufusraider

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews is probably the best novel I have read this year. The story revolves around the CIA and Russia's SVR services and their efforts to spy on each other. Two agents are trying to recruit each other as spies for the other side. The fall in love with each other over time a...

from Hagelstein

One of the best espionage novels in recent memory, Red Sparrow is long on tradecraft and realistic details and short on unlikely nonsense, for the most part. The writing is sharp, the characters and most of the scenarios are believable, and the chapters are appended with recipes lifted from the p...

from thewanderingjew

Red Sparrow, Jason Matthews, author; Jeremy Bobb, narrator Red Sparrow shines a light on the methods used by the American Intelligence Services and the Russian Intelligence Services. Nathan Nash and Dominika Egorova are agents working for their government's intelligence services in the interest o...

from keywestnan

I don't read a lot of (OK, any) espionage fiction but decided to give this book a try and I'm glad I did. It's a great tale, extremely well told, with an enlightening take on post Cold War East-West relationship and spycraft. Our heroes, American Nate and Russian Dominika, are both entirely worth...

from ericlee

Jason Matthews writes with such authority about the CIA that I kept thinking as I read this book -- he's either got a great imagination, or he was a player. It turns out to be the latter. A retired CIA officer, he has written Red Sparrow as the first of a trilogy. If I could sum up my thoughts on...