A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEA whole lot more than just a spy thriller, wrapping together the ties of family, of love and of country BARACK OBAMAThere has never been anything like it MARLON JAMES (GQ)A compelling read MAIL ON SUNDAYPacy and very exciting DAILY TELEGRAPH__________________________________What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? Its 1986, the heart of the Cold War. Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. Shes brilliant and talented, but shes also a black woman working in an all-white boys club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork - until shes recruited to 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.In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him, and ultimately, have a hand in the coup that