Although her parents secretly abhorred the Soviet system, she is the niece of the first deputy director of the foreign intelligence service - a mixed political heritage that puts her at the crossroads of the controversy about Russia’s new direction. Chief among those assets is MARBLE, the CIA’s “jewel in the tiara,” a mole at the top rungs of Russia’s foreign intelligence service who’s been selling out his country’s secrets for years.īut it’s the Red Sparrow herself, Dominika Egorova, who ultimately takes center stage. Increasingly reckless Nate Nash is one of the CIA’s internal-ops officers, tasked with recruiting and handling CIA assets. Much of that drama pivots on the relationships among three characters. Veteran CIA operative-turned-novelist Matthews keeps the trouble popping in “Red Sparrow,” but relentless drama is just one of the high points of this sublime and sophisticated debut. Just when one trouble is handled, another rears its fresh ugliness - perhaps wielding a two-foot-long Khyber blade. and the Russian governments, where bureaucracy and treachery frequently go hand in hand. High-placed moles have burrowed into the U.S. “ Likha beda nachalo,” reflects one of the Russian agents in Jason Matthews’s “Red Sparrow.” “Trouble is the beginning of disaster.”
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