
Alexei Zyuganov - Promoted to Chief of SVR's Counterintelligence, he becomes the story's main antagonist.Nate still acts as Dominika's handler but faces an inner conflict when attracted to new intelligence officer Hannah Archer. Nathaniel Nash - The supporting protagonist, he has a new asset codinamed LYRIC.Working as a double agent for the CIA, she starts getting the attention of the chief of Line KR, Alexei Zyuganov, who becomes her rival inside of the SVR.

Dominika Egorova - The story's main protagonist, she is back in her hometown Moscow and is promoted to Captain.And when a mole in the SVR finds Dominika’s name on a restricted list of sources, it is a virtual death sentence… Characters Complicating these risks is the fact that Dominika is in love with her CIA handler, Nate Nash, and their lust is as dangerous as committing espionage in Moscow. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington’s most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin.Īs she expertly dodges exposure, Dominika deals with a murderously psychotic boss survives an Iranian assassination attempt escapes a counterintelligence ambush rescues an arrested agent and exfiltrates him out of Russia and has a chilling midnight conversation in her nightgown with President Putin. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, and crooks, and thugs of Putin’s Russia. Just as fast-paced, heart-pounding, and action-packed as Red Sparrow, Jason Matthews’s second novel confirms he is “an insider’s insider…and a masterful storyteller” (Vince Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author).Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow. And when a mole in the SVR finds Dominika’s name on a restricted list of sources, it is a virtual death sentence…


From the bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author of the “terrifically good” (The New York Times) Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel about star-crossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIA's Nate Nash in a desperate race to the finish.Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow.
