![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A writer really has to make you enjoy spending some time inside the head of the person they are writing. This allows Wilkinson to leave out important information until it can have the best impact.įirst person novels are tricky. The book is set in 1992 and written as a letter from Marie to her young sons with a very calculated rambling structure that jumps around in time. His closest supporter later became the cause of his downfall and assassination under mysterious circumstances. Vaccinations, literacy initiatives and other positive changes he made during his short time in power were at odds with his later move to strengthen control via authoritarianism. Sankara was the real life president of Burkina Faso who made radical and speedy changes to improve the lives of the people of his country. Mitchell is drawn into a CIA operation to infiltrate the life of Thomas Sankara. Marie Mitchell, one of the few female African American FBI agents living in New York, is the voice of Lauren Wilkinson’s debut novel American Spy. ![]()
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