American spy : a novel / Lauren Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkinson, Lauren, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sankara, Thomas--Fiction.

Sankara, Thomas.

Intelligence officers--Fiction.

Intelligence officers.

History.

Burkina Faso.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Burkina Faso--History--Coup d'état, 1987--Fiction.

African Americans.

Local Subjects:

African Americans.

Intelligence officers--Fiction.

African American women--Fiction.

Burkina Faso--History--Coup d'état, 1987--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Spy stories.

History.

Spy fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

292 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2018]

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

ISBN:

9780812998955

0812998952

OCLC:

1033556922