Despite her talent, Marie Mitchell finds it difficult to advance in her career at the FBI as a young Black woman in 1986. So when she's approached to join a task force designed to bring down a popular revolutionary president in the African country Burkina Faso, she accepts—despite her misgivings about both the goal of the intervention and the ethics of her undercover assignment. What she didn't anticipate was falling in love with her mark. Inspired by true events, American Spy is a fresh, provocative, and unputdownable espionage thriller!