We have Nate Nash, CIA agent who is handling one of the greatest sources the U.S. has ever had in Russia - Marble. He is young, intuitive and working hard to keep from having to work with his father and brothers in the law business. Things go wrong in Moscow and he is reassigned to Helsinki.
Dominika Egorova is a unique woman, who sees music and people's emotions as colors. She became a dancer, but an injury cuts short her dance career and when her father dies at the same time, her KGB/SVR uncle Vanya pulls her into the Russian spy service. She goes through the training including Sparrow school, where she is taught to seduce and is sent off to seduce Nate. Her reading of people by the colors they emanate is useful for reading their intentions, often full of lies in the spy business. And then she meets Nate....
This is a reminder that the two super powers are back in a cold war state, though we don't talk of it in that way anymore. Latvia was mentioned briefly as a place to fly through or that the Baltics were a sore point for Putin. the book ends in Estonia.
At the end of each chapter there is a recipe from the story - whether they ate at a restaurant, or one of the characters cooked. I had to go get the print copy from the shelves in our library, so I can look through the recipes, as some sounded really good. They don't have quantities, but they have method, and some things I have already made. The range is wide from Russian dishes, to American, Greek, Thai, Italian and many more.
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