American Spy: a Cold War spy thriller like you've never read before

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S 2019 SUMMER READS

'A spy thriller like you've never read before' TIME

'A stunning book, timely as it is timeless' PAUL BEATTY, BOOKER PRIZE WINNER

'Riveting and thrilling from the very first page' MARIE CLAIRE
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What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love?

It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War. Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but she's also a black woman working in an all-white boys' club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork - until she's recruited to 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.

In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, 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, and a good American.

'There has never been anything like it . . . espionage thriller, African political drama, wild romance and doomed family epic' MARLON JAMES, BOOKER PRIZE WINNER (GQ)

'A gutsy new thriller' NEW YORK TIMES