{"product_id":"american-spy","title":"American Spy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Spy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“There has never been anything like it.”—Marlon James, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGQ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“So much fun . . . Like the best of John le Carré, it’s extremely tough to put down.”—NPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCHICAGO TRIBUNE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• NPR •\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEsquire\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVulture \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e•\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eReal Simple\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• The New York Public Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young black woman working in an old boys’ club. Her career has stalled out, she’s overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she’s given the opportunity to join 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, she says yes. Yes, even though she secretly admires the work Sankara is doing for his country. Yes, even though she is still grieving the mysterious death of her sister, whose example led Marie to this career path in the first place. Yes, even though a furious part of her suspects she’s being offered the job because of her appearance and not her talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the year that follows, Marie will observe Sankara, 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, a sister, and a good American.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by true events—Thomas Sankara is known as “Africa’s Che Guevara”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Spy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e knits together a gripping spy thriller, a heartbreaking family drama, and a passionate romance. This is a face of the Cold War you’ve never seen before, and it introduces a powerful new literary voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spy fiction plus allegory, and a splash of pan-Africanism. What could go wrong? As it happens, very little. Clever, bracing, darkly funny, and really, really good.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Ta-Nehisi Coates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Inspired by real events, this espionage thriller ticks all the right boxes, delivering a sexually charged interrogation of both politics and race.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEsquire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Echoing the stoic cynicism of Hurston and Ellison, and the verve of Conan Doyle, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Spy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elays our complicities—political, racial, and sexual—bare. Packed with unforgettable characters, it’s a stunning book, timely as it is timeless.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Paul Beatty, Man Booker Prizewinning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beck's Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42389365686338,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/816hLgA7OAL._SL1500.jpg?v=1755200007","url":"https:\/\/becksbooksmpls.com\/products\/american-spy","provider":"Long Live the Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}