American Spy: A Novel
Written by Lauren Wilkinson
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
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About this audiobook
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 death of her sister, whose example led Marie to this career path in the first place. Yes, even though a furious part of her suspects she’s being offered the job because of her appearance and not her talent.
In the year that follows, Marie will observe Sankara, seduce him, and ultimately have 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.
Inspired by true events — Thomas Sankara is known as “Africa’s Che Guevara” — American Spy knits together a gripping spy thriller, a heartbreaking family drama, and a passionate romance. This is a face of the Cold War you’ve never seen before, and it introduces a powerful new literary voice.
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Reviews for American Spy
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It just ended too abruptly I think... wish it was concluded
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love it. Really enjoyed listening to it. Seems like a book that should be read out loud. Loved the critique of being a woman on a man’s world. Hope she writes another.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I need to know what happens next! I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the characters, the story, the pacing. I highly recommend.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ambitious in plot and character development, I found it failed to deliver. Maybe it was spread too thin-there were many holes and lack of emotion needed to be drawn in.