Red Sparrow: A Novelvolume 1 (Dominika Egorova & Nathaniel Nash, #1) (Red Sparrow Trilogy, #1)

by Jason Matthews

Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.

• ISBN10: 1476706123
• ISBN13: 9781476706122
• Publish Date: 4 June 2013 (first published 31 May 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Scribner Book Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 448
• Language: English

Reviews

[viking2917]

More Tom Clancy than John Le Carre. It's a fun great and very polished for a first novel. Matthews is a former CIA employee, and knows whereof he speaks. Lots of tradecraft. But the characters are just a bit too stereotypical or one-dimensional. Dominika is the beautiful, large breasted former ballerina turned spy (seriously). Nate is the earnest & naive young case officer. They will of course fall in love. (The only non-traditional part of this book is that Dominika sees auras, so she doesn't have much trouble telling when people are lying). The Russians are all pretty one dimensional. The cameo appearances by Putin are pretty good. A good airplane book but not in a class with Le Carre, Littell, or Edward Wilson.