7/7/2023 0 Comments American spy wilkinson![]() Sankara, and the country he tried so hard to reform, were victims of the Cold War between the US and the USSR. Her portrait of Sankara and her account of the actions he took as president of his country hew closely to the historical record. And Marie’s work for the CIA involves “getting close” to the dictator of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara.Ĭold War rivalry in Africa lies at the heart of this storyĪuthor Lauren Wilkinson has built her tale around real-world events that transpired in Burkina Faso. Her family had come from Martinique, and her mother has returned there to live. In American Spy, the action shifts rapidly and often from New York City to Martinique to Burkina Faso in flashbacks and flashforwards. Except, as we’ll learn later, they might not have come from the CIA at all.įrom New York to Martinique to Burkina Faso ![]() And that’s what has led Marie to the FBI, and ultimately to agree to two assignments from the Company. It had been Helene’s ambition to join the CIA and later form her own private intelligence agency. Helene, now dead, was five years older and Marie’s idol. The action spans the thirty preceding yearsfrom the Cuban Missile Crisis to the “New World Order” following the end of the Cold War. ![]() ![]() American Spy is her story, written in 1992 in the first person as a diary for her young twin sons to read when they’re older. “I was a Special Agent in the FBI from 1983 to 1987, and in that time CIA hired me twice as a temporary contractor, the phrase they use for spy.” The narrator is Marie Mitchell. ![]()
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