In two practiced glances, Dominika checked the zoo of faces but did not get that tingle on the back of her neck that meant the start of trouble. Plenty of other street creatures already had watched her passing through the crowd-dancer’s legs, regal bust, arc-light-blue eyes-cutting her scent, sniffing for strength or frailty. Dominika eased back behind a street pole: it was unlikely that the rabbit was using the snack stop as a way to check his six-for the last three days he had shown himself to be oblivious on the street-but she wanted to avoid his noticing her too soon. The man stopped to buy a charred kebab skewer-typically pork in this Christian quarter-from a vendor who fanned the charcoal of a small brazier with a folded piece of cardboard, sending an occasional spark into the passing crowd and enveloping the street corner in clouds of smoke fragrant with coriander and chili. Dominika covered him loosely, alternately paralleling on the dividing island in the center of the boulevard and drafting behind the early evening pedestrians to screen her profile. Her black heels clicked on the Parisian sidewalk as she held her chin up, keeping the gray head of the rabbit in sight ahead of her-solo trailing surveillance on a moving foot target, one of the more difficult skills in offensive streetcraft. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Ĭaptain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, pulled the hem of her little black dress down as she weaved through the crowds of pedestrians in the red neon, pranging chaos of Boulevard de Clichy in the Pigalle. A grand, wildly entertaining ride through the steel-trap mind of a CIA insider, Palace of Treason is a story “as suspenseful and cinematic as the best spy movies” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer)-one that feels fresh and so possible, in fact, that it’s doubtful this novel can ever be published in Russia. Her “sparrow” training in the art of sexual espionage further complicates the mortal risks she must take, as does her love for her handler Nate Nash-a shared lust that is as dangerous as treason.Īs Dominika expertly dodges exposure, she deals with a murderously psychotic boss, survives an Iranian assassination attempt and attempts to rescue an arrested double agent-and thwart Putin’s threatening flirtations. The villains are richly drawn.the scenes of them on the job are beyond chilling” ( The New York Times Book Review).Ĭaptain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service despises the oligarchs, crooks, and thugs of Putin’s Russia-but what no one knows is that she is also working for the CIA. The thrilling sequel to Red Sparrow-CIA insider Jason Matthews’s compulsively readable New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner-featuring Russian spy Dominika Egorova and CIA agent Nate Nash “shimmers with authenticity. Red Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!
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