![]() ![]() ![]() She is -for the genre- a well-drawn character, with the complexities of her past set out. The second central character is beautiful female Russian spy, Dominika Egorova. He has the usual career issues of a young officer, dumped on by some useless self-serving senior men, taken under the wings of others. I felt at home with the central character, rookie-but-reliably-astute CIA man, Nathaniel Nash. There is a wonderfully written opening, set in Moscow, that skilfully deploys standard spy thriller themes -moles in the Russian secret service, a clandestine meeting, and a well-composed chase. ![]() Settling down to read Red Sparrow as my plane took off for Helsinki, my first thoughts were that I had stumbled upon a writer ideally suited to my tastes in thrillers. Much of Red Sparrow takes place in one of my favourite cities, Helsinki. ![]() Reading Red Sparrow represented another of those strange occurrences when I picked up a book to accompany me on a trip abroad, only to find that it is set in the city where I’m going. ![]()
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