RED SPARROW - Jason Matthews

Red Sparrow is a cold war-style espionage thriller by former CIA officer Jason Matthews. Dominika Egorov, a former prima ballerina, is drawn into the heart of Russian intelligence and trained as a Sparrow - a seductress skilled in the art of espionage. She is assigned to target American CIA officer Nate Nash, who runs MARBLE, one of the Agency's most valuable double agents inside Russia. As Dominika and Nate are drawn together, loyalties blur and a lethal game of espionage, seduction and betrayal unfolds. The novel was adapted into the major motion picture Red Sparrow starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Jeremy Irons. Published by Simon and Schuster UK, paperback, 552 pages.