In the tradition of John le Carré, the bestselling, impossible-to-put-down, espionage thriller that is a primer in twenty-first century spying The New York Times Book Review, written with the insider detail that only a veteran CIA operative could know—and shortlisted for an Edgar Award. 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 assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIAs 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 Americas most valuable mole in Moscow.
