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Nadine in NY Jones
Feb 27, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: r2019-in-2019, espionage-and-political-thrillers, broken, spies, lotsa-buzz, based-on-real-life, fiction, 100-best-of-21st-c, literary-schmiterary, all-time-favorites
While her gift for secrecy put distance between us, it also taught me the value of intelligence: I learned that a secret is power, that power in application is force, that force is strength, and strength advantage.


This was amazing! Ten stars!!

Framed as a mother's (very long) confessional letter to her two young sons, this story spans decades and generations and borders. It hooked me right away from the very first line:
I unlocked the safe beneath my desk, grabbed my old service automatic,
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Ann
Apr 02, 2019 rated it it was ok
Shelves: 2019-atw-80, 2019-aty-52
Just realized that I'm harsher on books that have disappointed me.
Me on a formulaic genre book - ⭐⭐⭐
Me on a promising literary book that disappointed me - ⭐⭐

I think it's because they annoyed me and made me hate myself for not DNF-ing.

Pros:
1.Storytelling device of being written as a journal to her kids is unusual and I liked that I wondered if she was glossing over her recollections to impress her kids.

2.I liked learning about Burkina Faso's birth and Thomas Sankara.

3. Main plot and reveals

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Jen
Oct 23, 2021 rated it really liked it
Shelves: around-the-world, spies, fiction, murders-mysteries-thrills, african-american, love-hurts, caribbean, z-2021-read
The time period is the 1980s. Marie is a young Black woman living in New York who works as an FBI agent. While dealing with family tragedy and the racism and sexism of working in an old white boys club, she takes an undercover assignment with the CIA to get close to the new, charismatic president of Burkina Faso. I loved that this story has a female of color spy at its center--more of that please! It's not a Le Carre-style spy story as it gives more time to Marie's personal history, which is int ...more
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Sam
Jan 20, 2019 marked it as to-read
Jen
Apr 04, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: africa, fiction
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Katy
May 10, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Ann
Apr 28, 2019 marked it as to-read
Rosemary
May 08, 2019 rated it really liked it
Shelves: audible
Ryan
Jun 24, 2019 rated it it was ok
Shelves: borrowed, z2018-published, 2019
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Sep 10, 2019 rated it liked it
Alyson Zikmund
Sep 26, 2019 marked it as to-read
alana
Mar 26, 2022 rated it really liked it
Shelves: historical-fiction, audiobook, 2022-readharder
Seulky
Jan 01, 2020 rated it liked it
Shelves: fiction-general
EmJay
Jan 29, 2020 marked it as to-read
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Jan 31, 2020 rated it really liked it
Pam
Feb 29, 2020 marked it as to-read
Shelves: fiction, burkina-faso
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Jun 14, 2020 marked it as to-read
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Nov 23, 2020 rated it really liked it
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Jan 06, 2021 marked it as to-read
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Apr 17, 2021 rated it really liked it
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Jen
May 17, 2021 marked it as to-read
Shelves: summer-reading
Lillawa
Oct 11, 2021 marked it as to-read
Tania
Jul 26, 2022 rated it liked it
Shelves: 2022-audiobooks
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