{"product_id":"9781476706146","title":"Red Sparrow (Red Sparrow Trilogy Series #1)","description":"\u003cb\u003eSoon to be a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of John le Carré, the bestselling, impossible-to-put-down, espionage thriller that is “a primer in twenty-first century spying” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), written with the insider detail that only a veteran CIA operative could know—and shortlisted for an Edgar Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eState 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 most valuable mole in Moscow. Seeking revenge against her soulless masters, Dominika begins a fateful double life, recruited by the CIA to ferret out a high-level traitor in Washington; hunt down a Russian illegal buried deep in the US 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTaking place in today’s Russia, still ruled with an iron fist by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, \u003ci\u003eRed Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e displays author Jason Matthews’s insider knowledge of espionage, counter-espionage, surveillance tradecraft, recruiting spies, interrogation, and intelligence gathering. As \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e hails, this is a “sublime and sophisticated debut…a first-rate novel as noteworthy for its superior style as for its gripping depiction of a secretive world.”","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135772541168,"sku":"9781476706146","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476706146_p0.jpg?v=1769893773","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476706146","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}