Red Sparrow
An impossible to put down, highly commercial espionage thriller written by a CIA insider.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...
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An impossible to put down, highly commercial espionage thriller written by a CIA insider.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 ass
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B008J4PK86
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
As you can see, I ended up really enjoying this book. The first 30% or so dragged a bit, because Matthews had to do quite a bit of backstory in order to set up the second two thirds. The book starts out with the two main characters going through their training - Dominika in Russia, doing intelligenc...
I'm not sure if it's because I've read so many bad espionage stories recently, but I am consciously aware that I liked this more than it deserved to be liked. I kept wishing there was a way the story could be written without a huge part of the plot (the ridiculous romance between two spies who reall...
bookshelves: e-book, winter-20152016, dec-2015-free-for-all, russia, russia-moscow, spies, published-2013, debut, finland, finland-helsinki, first-in-series, series, rid-the-world-of-tyrants, betrayal, assassination, bullies, casual-violence, censorship, cold-war-v2, corruption, decline-disintergra...
Status update : 20% finished - Knew who was MARBLE. 50% finished - Couldn't take it any longer. Gave it up.
Who says the Cold War is over? Sure, the Berlin Wall came down, the USSR is fractured, and Russia is no longer a communist state, but that doesn't mean the US isn't watching Russia very carefully––and vice versa. Vladimir Putin, that old KGB operative and apparently now President-for-Life, has plent...
12 years ago
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