Following three decades in the CIA, where he served as chief of several stations and managed covert-action projects in the agency’s former Operations Directorate, Matthews has turned his experience to writing thrillers. Red Sparrow, introduced Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova and won the 2014 Edgar and the International Thriller Writers awards for Best First Novel. Now Egorova is back; working in Putin’s Russia, she’s an agent for the CIA, has fallen in love with her American handler, and is about to be exposed by a mole.
