The first in a trilogy, set in Russia, much of Europe and some in the United States. It begins with CIA agent Nate Nash, who works the most important spy in Russia, the Marble, the most important CIA source for years. Nate, along with other CIA officers work Marble until Nate is sent to Helsinki for breaking the rules. We then cut to the Russian version of the CIA, struggling to move into the 20th century. Dominika, Egorova, a frustrated former ballerina, is chosen by her Uncle Vanya, to be a sparrow, a trained seductress. To get her to acquiesce, he intimates that Dominka's mother might just lose her apartment if Dominika does not cooperate. She is sent to the Red Sparrow school where beautiful young women are trained to romance foreign nationals, eventually blackmailing them, so they cooperate with the Russians. These two are the major players, meet in Helsinki and both hope to turn the other. It gets much more interesting in the last half of the book as they fall for each other. Dominika ends up turning and becomes Marble's successor, at least that's what the CIA hopes.
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