American Spy
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Random House
Published: Feb 12, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812998955
Description: 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
Notes: Source title: American Spy: A Novel