******"_American Spy_ updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality."--_Entertainment Weekly_** **"Gutsy . . . challenging boundaries is what brave fiction does." --_The New York Times_** **"So much fun . . . Like the best of John le Carr e, it's extremely tough to put down."--NPR**
American Spy
β Scribed by Wilkinson, Lauren
- Book ID
- 110322185
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 357 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780812998955
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β¦ Synopsis
"[This] unflinching, incendiary debut combines the espionage novels of John le CarrΓ© with the racial complexity of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man."βPublishers Weekly (starred review)**
What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love?**
It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman working in an old boys' club. Her career has stalled out, she's overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she's given the opportunity to join 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, she says yes. Yes, even though she secretly admires the work Sankara is doing for his country. Yes, even though she is still grieving the mysterious...
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