Marie Mitchell is a brilliant FBI agent stuck behind a desk. It’s 1986, and being a young Black woman in an old boys’ club has left her sidelined—until she’s recruited for a covert mission to undermine Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso.
She doesn’t trust her handlers. She admires Sankara. But she says yes.
What follows is espionage with a pulse. Marie will seduce, observe, and betray. But her mission will force her to confront not just Cold War politics, but the cost of loyalty, race, and grief.
American Spy is a tense, elegant blend of spy thriller, political drama, and personal reckoning. Inspired by true events, Lauren Wilkinson delivers a gripping debut that rewrites the rules of the genre and redefines what it means to be a patriot.
