Veteran journalist and author
Joseph C. Goulden offers a good review of Jason Matthews’ The Kremlin’s
Candidate for the Washington Times.
An ever-present nightmare for
an intelligence agency is the prospect of an enemy officer winnowing his or her
way into a position where he or she can endanger operations.
High-level traitors are not
unknown in the trade. Consider the British officer Kim Philby who spied for the
Soviets while working in counterintelligence for his country’s Secret
Intelligence Service.
Author Jason Matthews posits
an even more audacious penetration in his delightfully-readable novel in which
Russia has positioned a candidate for the position of director of Central
Intelligence.
Mr. Matthews writes with the
insider-authenticity of an officer who served for 33 years in the CIA’s
Operations Directorate, specializing in denied-area assignments.
“The Kremlin’s Candidate” is
the third book in his Red Sparrow series, with carry-over characters, but
nonetheless a stand-alone work. It reinforces Mr. Matthews‘ dominance as a
writer of intelligence fiction.
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