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Title: American Spy: A Novel
Author: WILKINSON LAUREN
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: LITTLE BROWN
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant and talented, but she’s also a black woman working in an all-white boys’ club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork – until she’s recruited to a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso, whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention.
In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him, and ultimately, have a hand in the coup that will bring him down. But doing so will change everything she believes about what it means to be a spy, a lover, and a good American.
Inspired by true events – Thomas Sankara is known as ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’, but his story is not widely known across the world – this novel is sweeping historical fiction with an enthralling espionage thriller at its core, and introduces a powerful new literary voice.
ISBN: 9780349700991