This is not a -good- book. However, it is fastpaced and fun, especially if you're reading it in the Trump Era as it has fantastically topical moments. The jabs at America's current political climate are hilarious and disheartening, as they should be. Beyond that, it is a standard espionage romp - expect lots of intimate detail during deadly fights and to forsee every "twist." That said, the ending does redeem it so I suggest sticking it out!

"'You’re a regular Alfred Einstein,' said Gable. 'Keep going.'" The intrigue, Wow! Thanks Jason Matthews.

Damn. That ending!

This was a lay in bed and don’t eat breakfast until you finish it kind of ride to the end of the novel. Holy...

Crazy crazy crazy...

Overall, a good read. However, there are some rather unusual continuity and logic errors present:

Dominika was shown a photo of SUSAN and told SUSAN is an editor at “big liberal magazine in Manhattan”... in their meet, SUSAN tells her how hard it is to be an editor. At 1st meeting with Gable @ Turkish Cuisine, she doesn’t tell him about SUSAN being an editor, but describes SUSAN. At meeting w/ gable on Hudson St, she says she doesn’t know what SUSAN looks like, and Westfall somehow knows about SUSAN working at a “leading literary magazine” without having been told.e

D was tailed by Blokhin and almost seen meeting with Gable, D said she was “clean” but never thought of transponders in clothing, tracking devices, or the rather elaborate idea of radioactive tracking, even though she’s the Chief of CI and would certainly be aware of all of these. They choose to meet to hand off the phone rather than a safer dead drop.

She’s tracked again at the mall, but still has meeting planned with Gable.

When COPPERFIN starts getting rolled up, Benford tells Gable that MAGINT either works or has worked on the rail gun project, and that the news MAGINT is moving up to a policy level job “widens the field”.. This is backwards - it significantly NARROWS the list of people the mole could be. Adding items to disqualify people can only REDUCE the total number, not INCREASE it.

When D meets the agent in Moscow, he gives her an always-on transmitting beacon in the form of a watch she is to wear at all times and tells her it “frequency hops so it can’t be geolocated”. Still, one would assume that the guards at the door of FSB headquarters (who, like the CIA currently does, would certainly have a Digital Transmission Detector scanning everyone entering) might wonder why their Chief of Counterintelligence is wearing a watch broadcasting a signal strong enough to be picked up by satellite.

An exceptional, thrilling story. A classic spy thriller with scary good tradecraft, high level espionage, heart-racing danger and so many plot twists. A good ending to the series

Sofisticado. Cruel. Brutal . Real e violenta deve ser a espionagem do século XXI em que homens e mulheres lutam e por vezes dão a sua vida para preservar a bandeira e a segurança dos cidadãos do seu país .
Dominika Egorova neste livro vai ganhando a confiança de Putin e do seu conselheiro mais próximo para tentar chegar ao cargo de Diretora do SVR, mas as consequências de espionagem ao mais alto nível podem ser devastadoras e de uma crueldade sem igual.
Vale a pena ler espionagem inteligente, muito bem escrita como esta.

What the actual heck was that ending? I think my brain just collapsed in on itself!

Um fim surpreendente e imprevisível de uma das trilogias que mais gostei de ler.
Jason Matthews tornou-se um dos meus escritores favoritos após ler estes 3 livros impressionantes.