Red Sparrow is currently a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!

The “interesting bottom line” (Entertainment Regular) in the New York Times bestselling Crimson Sparrow Trilogy provides Russian counterintelligence main Dominika Egorova and her fan, CIA agent Nate Nash, over the hunt for a Russian agent working in the US government.

Using a plot ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, Jason Matthews is “one of America’s most readable spy novelists” (The Washington Post Book World), and about The Kremlin’s Candidate his high-powered, seductive third novel not only continues the dangerous entanglements of Dominika and Nate but reveals with chilling authenticity how Russian espionage can place agents in probably the most sensitive positions of power. The Kremlin’s Candidate starts with Russian president Vladimir Putin preparing the covert assassination of a high-ranking US established with the purpose of changing him with a mole whom Russian intelligence provides cultivated for more than fifteen years.

Catching wind of this plot, Dominika, Nate, and their CIA colleagues must unmask the traitor before he or she is able to reveal that Dominika continues to be spying for years on behalf of the CIA. Any leak, any misstep, will expose her like a CIA asset and create a one-way visit to a Moscow execution cellar. Eventually, the lines of danger converge around the spectacular billion-dollar presidential palace over the Black Sea during a power weekend with Putin’s internal circle. Will Nate sacrifice himself to save lots of Dominika? Does Dominika forfeit herself to protect Nate? Do each goes down together?

This amazing finale to Jason Matthews’s NY Times bestselling Red Sparrow Trilogy “delivers a wallop on all fronts, from adrenaline-charged action to dark political intrigue to gripping emotional stakes…Readers will finish the book, but their memories of Matthews’s brilliant and fearless heroine will linger well past the final page” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). The Kremlin’s Applicant is definitely “a stellar bottom line…racing to a heart-pounding and unpredicted resolution” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).