American Spy

Lauren Wilkinson

About this book

1986, the heart of the Cold War. A young black woman working in an old boys' club, Marie Mitchell's FBI career has stalled out and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. Given the opportunity to join a 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. In the year that follows Marie observes Sankara, seduces him-- and has 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, a sister, and a good American. -- adapted from jacket

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • african american women
  • coup d'état (burkina faso : 1987.)
  • coup d'état (burkina faso : 1987) fast (ocolc)fst01352561
  • coup d'e tat (burkina faso : 1987) fast (ocolc)fst01352561 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst0135
  • coup d'état (burkina faso : 1987) fast (ocolc)fst01352561 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01352
  • fiction
  • fiction / african american / historical
  • fiction, espionage
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction / literary
  • fiction / thrillers / espionage
  • history
  • intelligence officers
  • new york times reviewed