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American Spy

✍ 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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✦ Synopsis


"[This] unflinching, incendiary debut combines the espionage novels of John le CarrΓ© with the racial complexity of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man."β€”Publishers 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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