![]() ![]() ![]() This would be especially bad for Russian Counterintelligence Chief Dominika Egorova, as she’s been secretly feeding information to the Americans for years, primarily through her lover CIA agent, Nate Nash. The novel opens with Putin plotting the assassination of an important member of the American intelligence community with an eye to filling the deceased’s vacated position with a handpicked mole who’s been in Russia’s employ for over a decade. Overall, however, The Kremlin’s Candidate is a grimly satisfying look at real life in the modern-day espionage services. There are details included that feel so authentic as to be absolutely factual, even if they don’t make for the most appetizing reading I could honestly have done without the explicit detail of Vladimir Putin’s sexual peccadilloes, for example. Weirdly, I thought that the final novel in the Red Sparrow Trilogy was at once its most realistic as well as its most wildly fanciful. ![]()
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