Palace of Treason, Jason Matthews
Palace of Treason, Jason Matthews
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Palace of Treason

Author: Jason Matthews

Narrator: Jeremy Bobb

Unabridged: 20 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/02/2015


Synopsis

Red Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!

From the bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author of the “terrifically good” (The New York Times) Red Sparrow, a pulse-pounding espionage thriller about star-crossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIA officer 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 and the Center, the headquarters of her service. She finds things worse than when she left. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, and crooks, and thugs of Putin’s Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington’s most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin.

Complicating the mortal risks Dominika must take is the fact that she is in love with her CIA handler, Nate Nash, a lust that is as dangerous to both of them as committing espionage in Moscow. Dominika’s life is further complicated when Russian President Putin casts ice-blue eyes in her direction. As she expertly dodges exposure, Dominika deals with a murderously psychotic boss, survives an Iranian assassination attempt, and tries to rescue an arrested double agent—and thwart Putin’s threatening flirtations. These things never end well.

“Jason Matthews has resurrected the spy novel…to reflect the deadly serious stakes of the new Cold War. On a scale of one to five stars, Palace of Treason is a six” (New York Journal of Books). A grand, wildly entertaining ride through the steel-trap mind of a CIA insider, this is a story “as suspenseful and cinematic as the best spy movies” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

About Jason Matthews

What better author of spy novels than someone who worked for the CIA. Such is the career of American author, Jason Matthews, who is a retired officer of the CIA's Operations Directorate. He served in many overseas locations, engaging in clandestine operations from which he would collect national security intelligence. He retired after serving for over thirty years.

Matthews lives in California, where he authored the award winning Red Sparrow Trilogy which includes Red Sparrow, Palace of Treason, and The Kremlin's Candidate. In March 2018, Red Sparrow was released as a feature film.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on December 04, 2023

This is the second book of a trilogy. A new reader could jump in right here but that would be a disservice as the first book in this series was excellent. In this one Dominika returns home to Russia as a successful agent. What the powers to be do not know is that she is now an agent for the United S......more

Goodreads review by Skip on January 25, 2016

An excellent sequel to Red Sparrow by CIA insider Jason Matthews. Russian spy Dominika Egarova is back at work in Moscow working for the CIA's Nate Nash, working to undermine the usurper, Putin. Meanwhile, there are moles in both countries trying to out the opposition's assets as well as thwart Iran......more

Goodreads review by kartik on March 14, 2018

Read the review of the Red Sparrow Trilogy at my blog I had a blast reading Palace of Treason. It has everything you need from a spy thriller - sex, violence, mind games and betrayals; with the same authenticity as Red Sparrow. There is a main plot but it is for name's sake. It takes back seat to the......more

Goodreads review by Otis on August 10, 2018

Another fast paced thriller that I couldn’t put down. Matthews takes the story of Nate and Dominika even further and to places I couldn’t have predicted. As with the first Red Sparrow, book two feels like an insight into what spy craft must really be like. I found it very interesting to learn more ab......more