“Palace of Treason” shimmers with authenticity. for 33 years, knows the world of espionage and its darkest corners is never in doubt. handler, Nathaniel Nash, with whom she makes love “against the rules, against good sense, flaunting every tenet of security.” Putin himself (blue halo pulsing), with eyebrow-raising results. There she eventually catches the eye of President Vladimir V. Enraged by the plundering of her country, Egorova is now one of the C.I.A.’s highest placed moles in the Kremlin. Matthews deftly weaves in enough back story to hook both new readers and those returning. “Palace of Treason,” the sequel to “Red Sparrow,” does not disappoint. Brave, beautiful and deadly, Egorova is a synesthete, who sees a halo of color above the heads of those around her, and a graduate of the Sparrow School, where female agents are taught advanced sexual techniques as an aid to seduction and recruitment. Lavished with deserved praise, it introduced Dominika Egorova, of the Russian Intelligence Service, one of the most complex and compelling heroines to grace the espionage genre. “Red Sparrow,” Jason Matthews’s debut thriller, is a challenging act to follow.
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