- Fiction, historical, Fiction, espionage, African americans, fiction, New York Times reviewed
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
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Grave, classical in form, bleak and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Lauren Wilkinson
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Random House, Random House Publishing Group, Dialogue Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780349700977
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