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So similar to Tom Clancy's Red October

posted 6 years ago by nanaboo (34)
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I'm really surprised when I found out, reading the posts here, that Red Sparrow was a novel first. The setup is different but the premise is very much the same.
Young Agent gives up older (in Red October dying agent) so he can establish himself within the Russian government. Sort of main guy in Red October goes rogue with the submarine because a drunk Russian surgeon botched up his wife's surgery and couldn't be processed because his father was a party leader.

[–] Gary O. (997) 4 years ago

No; it isn't. HFRO was about a planned defection and there was no exchange involved. Granted there is the incompetent surgeon in both stories but no young agent gives up an older one.

There was an exchange in "Cardinal of the Kremlin", but even there, it happened in the early 1960's with Oleg Penkovskiy was exposed as a CIA mole, by one of the characters who became a valued Western asset.