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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Scribner
Publication date January 7, 2014
Pages 448
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781476766225
ISBN-10 1476766223
Availability§ Apply Direct
Original list price $15.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.

Editions
Hardcover
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Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (September 11, 2013)
9781410461131 | details & prices | 773 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.78 lbs | List price $31.99
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from Scribner (June 4, 2013)
9781476706122 | details & prices | 434 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.34 lbs | List price $26.99
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Scribner (December 9, 2014)
9781476706139 | details & prices | 434 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $17.00
from Pocket Books (April 29, 2014)
9781476764177 | details & prices | 551 pages | 4.25 × 7.75 × 1.50 in. | 0.74 lbs | List price $9.99
About: “A great and dangerous spy-game is being played today between Russian intelligence and the CIA.
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Reprint edition from Scribner (January 7, 2014)
9781476766225 | details & prices | 448 pages | List price $15.00
About: IN THE GRAND SPY-TALE TRADITION OF JOHN LE CARRÉ .
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781442365520
 
With Jeremy Bobb (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Simon & Schuster (June 4, 2013)
9781442365520 | details & prices | 6.00 × 5.00 × 1.50 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $49.99

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