<P> Nate Nash is a CIA operative working in Moscow . While meeting with an asset in Gorky Park, they are confronted by the police . Nash creates a diversion to ensure his asset, a mole in Russian ranks code - named Marble, escapes unidentified . Nash is reassigned back to the U.S. but insists that he is the only individual whom Marble will work with . Since he cannot return to Russia, he is assigned to Budapest, where he will regain contact with Marble . </P> <P> Dominika is sent to State School 4, a specialist training schools for' Sparrows', SVR operatives capable of seducing their targets with sexpionage . Dominika excels in her training, despite some friction with her trainers, and she is assigned to Budapest . Meanwhile the SVR has been tracking Nash, and hopes to find out the identity of Marble . Dominika's assignment is to gain the trust of Nash, and reveal his contact . </P> <P> Upon her arrival in Budapest, Dominika lives with Marta Yelenova, another Sparrow . Her boss in Budapest is Maxim Volontov . Dominika quickly makes contact with Nash, who correctly determines that she is a Russian intelligence operative . Dominika reveals her true identity to him, as well as her motive to find out Marble's identity . Dominika inspects Marta's room, and realizes that she is working to gather information from Stephanie Boucher, the chief of staff to a U.S. Senator . Dominika claims to her uncle that she is helping in Marta's effort to gather information from Boucher . </P> <P> Dominika offers to work for Nash as a double agent . She carries out Marta's assignment to meet Boucher, and covertly exchanges the supplied information for CIA - supplied floppy disks . On leaving the meeting place, Boucher sees American agents and is spooked . She unintentionally steps into traffic and is killed . Russian agents observing Boucher realize that the mission had been compromised . Dominika and Volontov are required to immediately return to Moscow . She is tortured and interrogated for days . Dominika returns to Budapest, and informs Nash that she wishes to defect with her mother to America . </P>

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