American Spy a Novel
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Random House, c2019Description: 294 pISBN:- 9780812988284
- 813.6 WIL
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Lending Collection | Circulation Section | Circulation Section | 813.6 WIL | Available | 97796 |
Summary:
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