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American Spy

A Cold War Spy Thriller Like You've Never Read Before

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American Spy

Von: Lauren Wilkinson
Gesprochen von: Bahni Turpin
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A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2019 PICK

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

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.

©2019 Lauren Wilkinson (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK Historische Thriller Krimis Politik Politik & Spionage Thriller

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"A spy thriller like you've never read before." (TIME)

"Packed with unforgettable characters, it's a stunning book, timely as it is timeless." (Paul Beatty, Man Booker Prize Winner)

"Riveting and thrilling from the very first page." (Marie Claire)

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Maybe espionage really is boring, but I did not finish this because it was not delivering the story I expected. I was not interested in the whole life of this woman. I wanted to get to the core of the story. I got impatient. It wasn't moving after a super, super strong beginning. And I wanted to be captured like that throughout, but I was taken into a really tedious background, with details of her childhood and family. I kept asking myself, "When are we getting to the part where she becomes a spy?" I gave up. Maybe some other day I'll pick it up again, because other than that, it was well-written, but I did not pick this up because I was interested in someone's childhood.

Not what I expected...

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