After being pushed back and delayed from mid-2017 to early 2018, Jason Matthews’ forthcoming novel, The Kremlin’s Candidate—the final novel in his bestselling Red Sparrow trilogy–finally has a cover!
Matthews’ highly-anticipated sequel to Palace of Treason (2015) is scheduled to hit bookstores on February 13, 2018. Returning are Russian counterintelligence chief Colonel Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash, an operative with the CIA.
The reason behind the move from 2017 to 2018 was, apparently, so that the final book would come out just before the film adaptation of Red Sparrow hits movie theaters.
Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games, Passengers) stars as Dominika Egorova, opposite of Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Exodus: Gods and Kings) who is playing the role of Nathaniel Nash in the Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games franchise)-directed film, which comes out on March 2, 2018.
For more on the upcoming final chapter in Matthews’ trilogy, read the official plot synopsis below.
Russian counterintelligence chief Colonel Dominika Egorova has been a recruited asset of the CIA, stealing Kremlin secrets for her CIA handler Nate Nash for over seven years. In the dazzling finale to the Red Sparrow Trilogy—which will be published right before the release of Red Sparrow, a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgarton—their forbidden and tumultuous love affair continues, mortally dangerous for them both, but irresistible.
In Washington, a newly installed US administration is selecting its Cabinet members. Dominika hears a whisper of a closely held Kremlin operation to place a mole inside a high intelligence position. But it’s worse than that: One of the three candidates under consideration has been a paid Russian spy for a decade, selling precious US secrets. If the Kremlin’s candidate for the position is confirmed, the Russians will have access to all the names of assets spying for CIA in Moscow, including Dominika’s. But which of the three individuals is the mole?
Dominika’s report triggers a desperate mole hunt before she’s exposed and arrested. Resisting all suggestions to defect and save herself, Dominika recklessly immerses herself in the palace intrigues of the Kremlin, searching for the mole’s name, and stealing as many of President Putin’s secrets for her CIA handlers before her time runs out—even as Putin’s dangerous interest in her grows. The treasure trove of her intelligence reporting sends Nate Nash and colleagues on desperate missions to Sevastopol, Istanbul, Khartoum, and Hong Kong.
With a plot ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, The Kremlin’s Candidate is a riveting read if you’ve never read Jason Matthews, and a thrilling conclusion to the trilogy begun with Red Sparrow and Palace of Treason, which The New York Times Book Review called, “a primer in twenty-first-century spying…terrifically good.”
Without question, this is one of the biggest thrillers coming out next year. Those eager to pre-order their copy in advance can do so here!