Lauren Wilkinson on 'American Spy'




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Summary: Lauren Wilkinson joins Stephen to discuss her debut novel 'American Spy'. It’s 1986, the height 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. So when she’s given the opportunity to join a task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says y