01778cam a2200361 i 4500 517040714 TxAuBib 20190520120000.0 180430s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018014537 9780812998955 $27.00 0812998952 $27.00 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Wilkinson, Lauren, 1984- American spy : a novel / Lauren Wilkinson. First edition. New York : Random House, [2018] 292 p. ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20190520. Sankara, Thomas Fiction. Intelligence officers Fiction. African American Women Fiction. Burkina Faso History Coup d'état, 1987 Fiction. Spy stories. Historical fiction. Random House. BTCLS