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Jason Matthews, CIA officer who after a career in the field wrote realistic spy novels including Red Sparrow – obituary
Though there was a tradition of British spies turning thriller writers, Matthews was a rare instance of an American who made the transition
3 May 2021 • 6:28pm
Matthews: he pointed out that ‘We’re not choirboys’ and had few regrets about the untruths he had told in American interests
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Jason Matthews, who has died in California aged 69, wrote the best-selling thriller Red Sparrow (2013) and its sequels, which drew on the author’s previous career of three decades with the CIA.