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Simon & Schuster has won out in a six-way auction for debut spy novel Treason by former CIA clandestine operations officer Jason Matthews, scooping the title for a six-figure sum.
Publisher Maxine Hitchcock bought UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights in the title through Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown, on behalf of Sloan Harris of ICM, and will be publishing next summer.
Geller described the book as a “classic spy novel involving a Russian Honey Trap agent trained in Putin’s Russia and a young CIA operative who is protecting a mole deep in the Russian intelligence services”, pitching it as “Tinker Tailor for a 'Homeland' generation”.
Matthews spent 33 years as a clandestine operations officer and senior manager for the CIA, and lives in California with his wife, also a CIA veteran.