Did you grow up on that kind of fiction and those movies? I wanted to write a classic, old spy yarn with the Russians as the main opponents. There are lots of great thriller writers out there, but they mostly write about counterterrorism and catching the briefcase nuke. The novel “Red Sparrow” is a throwback to the old-school spy novels that emphasize tradecraft, as opposed to a lot of the contemporary books that are action novels with spy plots grafted onto them.Ībsolutely. Before I knew it, I had a novel together. I started writing fictionalized little snippets of accounts of people that we’ve known, fictionalized mosaics of places we’ve been and things we’ve done. One of the familiar Hollywood tropes of retired spies is the big black car pulls up to your house and they recruit you back into service. When that lifestyle ended, it ends with the crash. You were always on, you were always looking for surveillance, you're always wondering about rooms being bugged. In the clandestine service part of the agency, our careers were very experiential, 24/7. The good news for fans of the movie is that the two additional novels in his trilogy might make even better films. Jason is a CIA veteran doesn't hedge his thoughts about Russia.
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