In case you haven’t heard, Jason Matthews best-selling spy novel, Red Sparrow, has been made into a feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games, Passengers) and Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Exodus: Gods and Kings) as Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash.
Sparrow, the first book in a trilogy which concludes with next year’s The Kremlin’s Candidate, Matthews highly-anticipated forthcoming novel, introduces readers to Russian spy Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash, an agent with America’s Central Intelligence Agency.
To learn more about the book, which is more of a slow-burn espionage thriller in a similar vein as John le Carré, click here. To learn more about the film, read the movie description below, then keep scrolling to see the intense first trailer!
Dominika Egorova is many things.
A devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at all costs.
A prima ballerina whose ferocity has pushed her body and mind to the absolute limit.
A master of seductive and manipulative combat.When she suffers a career-ending injury, Dominika and her mother are facing a bleak and uncertain future. That is why she finds herself manipulated into becoming the newest recruit for Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people like her to use their bodies and minds as weapons. After enduring the perverse and sadistic training process, she emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow the program has ever produced. Dominika must now reconcile the person she was with the power she now commands, with her own life and everyone she cares about at risk, including an American CIA agent who tries to convince her he is the only person she can trust.