'American Spy: A Novel'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Apr 8, 2019

Lauren Wilkinson joins us to discuss her new book, American Spy: A Novel. The book is inspired by true events and tells the story of a young black woman working as an intelligence officer for the FBI in 1986 tasked with undermining Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary president of Burkina Faso.

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