Red Sparrow

A Novel

By: Jason Matthews

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

The start of a major career! A gripping, highly commercial espionage thriller written with the delicious insider detail and up-to-the-minute insight only known to a veteran CIA spook.

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. 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. 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.

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. military and, against all odds, to return to Moscow as the new-generation penetration of Putin's intelligence service. 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.

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©2013 Jason Matthews (P)2013 Simon & Schuster Audio

Awesome! Exactly what I was hoping for!

Fantastic story! I was looking for a story about the intricacies of recruiting for espionage. I got my wish!

Cookbook or Novel???

Recipes at the end of each chapter were not necessary and very distracting. Otherwise I enjoyed the book.

I was HOOKED!

This is an amazing book. I was hooked early on. The person narrating this audio book did a fantastic job. His voice was smooth and easy to listen to while in traffic.

Great!

Great book and reader. Will select another by this author DVD’s the terrific reader. Enjoyable!

I liked it mostly

It's a bit of a love story, which is not what I really wanted in this book, but it does not detract from the story significantly. Other than being so "beautiful", I think Nash has poor taste in women unless cold, bitter, and angry is appealing to you. But the book is good and moves along well so I do recommend it. I did not purchase the sequel books however if that tells you anything.

Excellent book, Excellent performance.

I’ll keep this brief - so many have been turned off of this book due to the disasterous film adaptation. Those who thought the film was poorly executed and too soft, but enjoyed the overarching narrative might find a vastly improved telling of the story (including a much stronger ending) in the book.

Excellent

Well written creative novel. Love it. I want to read more about the characters. what becomes of them. I was not ready for the story to end.

I've read the book and listened to it and enjoyed

I loved the story line and have read the other books associated with the books

Great read

really amazing narrative I enjoyed the read very very interesting certainly worth your time. I wonder how much of this actually happens in real life

Book is better than the movie

It seemed a little slow at start but then I was looking to make time to listen. I liked the development of the character, reminded me of an Urban Informationalist character.
I had a hard time following the time line at times. I wasn’t sure if one week or one month passed.
I didn’t believe the senator would have been that young and so easily corrupted , I liked the movie adaptation of that character situation better.
The ending was unexpected and kept me thinking about it for days to come .
I liked it enough to download the sequel.
If you liked “The Cuban Affair” or Vanessa Monroe type characters, you will probably like this.