Paedophile who killed mum and toddler denied move to open prison
Sharon and Jade s loved ones say Thomas Park should never be released
Thomas Park murdered Sharon Lester and her daughter Jade Lester.
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A paedophile who killed a mum and her young daughter was refused a move to open prison following his parole hearing.
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
Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo
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.
Jason Matthews, C.I.A. Officer Turned Novelist, Dies at 69
After 33 years at the agency, he turned out three well-received novels that included realistic details of espionage and appearances by Vladimir Putin.
The novelist and former intelligence operative Jason Matthews in Bryant Park in Manhattan in 2015. His fiction, he said, was “an amalgam of people I’ve known, of things I’ve done, of stuff I’ve lived.”Credit.Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times
May 2, 2021, 11:29 a.m. ET
Jason Matthews, who after 33 years as a C.I.A. officer in Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade, Rome, Budapest and Hong Kong became a best-selling author of three spy thrillers, died on Wednesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 69.