From the bestselling, Edgar Awardwinning author of the terrifically good The New York Times Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel about star-crossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIAs 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. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, and crooks, and thugs of Putins Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washingtons most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin. As she expertly dodges exposure, Dominika deals with a murderously psychotic boss survives an Iranian assassination attempt escapes a counterintelligence ambush rescues an arrested agent and exfiltrates him out of Russia and has a chilling midnight conversation in her nightgown with President Putin.