• Red Sparrow

  • A Novel
  • By: Jason Matthews
  • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
  • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (17,181 ratings)

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Red Sparrow

By: Jason Matthews
Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
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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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Absolutely gripping

Sit back and enjoy this spy thriller novel. I found myself sitting in my car at home not wanting to leave the story till the next morning commute. I could see someone finishing this almost binge style. So hard to let go till the next reading. The recipes at the ends of the chapters are almost needed so your heart can take a break from pounding. Can’t wait to read the next two in the series. Having seen the movie prior to the book I think it almost added to it because I could visualize the characters. They aligned so well it was almost as if this was the extended directors cut. Wonderful!

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Outstanding Spy Action & Drama

Amazing story and character development... hard to put down. Will find yourself listening for hours a session. You will be pulling for these guys and gals during the most harrowing of circumstances... that don’t stop!

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Cold war history a prerequisite

Solid spy novel with legit "tradecraft" but without the poser masculinity of the Clancy types.

Casual mention of Golitsyn, Angleton, and "wilderness of mirrors" suggests at least passing knowledge of defector literature.

Movie is uncomfortably dark. If you have read "Out of the Night" or Golitsyn or "Origins of the Fourth World War" or Sun Tzu or "American Betrayal", you should not miss this book/movie. Without that homework in pocket, I suspect the plot will be nearly incomprehensible.

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pick this book

excellent thriller to the last minutes of the story, I highly recommend it. pick this book.

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spell binding

loved it. waiting for the second in series to see what happens to the sparrow

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compelling

The story and characters pull the reader in, character development and story line . Very satisfying read.

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Nice story

It was slow at first but I pushed through since it head to be good of it made a movie. It picked up about a quarter of the way through them I loved it. All of the Russian accented voices were a little too calming so I fell asleep a ton of times even though I was looking the story

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The Cold War lives.

This is the best novel in this genre in years. Ken Follett moved on and Jason Matthews has filled the void.

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Exciting and interesting!

Overall: Great story, read on a single breath, would like to read whole trilogy!
Performance: Russian pronunciation (sigh) better would be omitted, to not offend a narrator (not even close, such words even do not exist in whole universe). Dish description at the end of each chapter was odd and out of the context.

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spies

loved it and I'll look forward to the next book about the Red Sparrow. thanks

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