Live Breaking News & Updates on Thomas Sakara

Stay updated with breaking news from Thomas sakara. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Favourites of 2020: The moral ambiguity of spying


An end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter
contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Look back on the series and watch for more recommendations and reflections in the days ahead.
Like the best spy novels, Lauren Wilkinson’s
American Spy plays with the moral ambiguity associated with intelligence gathering. But this book stands out as my favourite of 2020 because Wilkinson elevates the genre with a Black female protagonist.
The story centres on Marie Mitchell, a young FBI agent who is recruited by the CIA in the late 1980s to spy on Thomas Sakara, the (real-life) charismatic leader of the newly born Burkina Faso, whose communist ideology made him a target for American intervention. The book opens with an attempt on Mitchell’s life, and the plot moves along quickly, alternating between Mitchell’s childhood in 1960s, her career as an FBI agent in the late 1980s and her escape to her mother’s ho ....

Burkina Faso , United States , Marie Mitchell , Thomas Sakara , Lowy Institute , Lauren Wilkinson , American Spy , புர்கினா ஃபாஸொ , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , மேரி மிட்செல் , தாமஸ் சாகரா , தாழ்வான நிறுவனம் , லாரன் வில்கின்சன் , அமெரிக்கன் உளவு ,

Favourites of 2020: The moral ambiguity of spying Erin Hurley A Black female protagonist elevates the genre to show how intelligence professionals live with their choices.


Posted December 16th, 2020 for Lowy Institute
Published 16 Dec 2020 12:00  
An end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter
contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Look back on the series an watch for more recommendations and reflections in the days ahead.
Like the best spy novels, Lauren Wilkinson’s
American Spy plays with the moral ambiguity associated with intelligence gathering. But this book stands out as my favourite of 2020 because Wilkinson elevates the genre with a Black female protagonist.
The story centres on Marie Mitchell, a young FBI agent who is recruited by the CIA in the late 1980s to spy on Thomas Sakara , the (real-life) charismatic leader of the newly born Burkina Faso, whose communist ideology made him a target for American intervention. The book opens with an attempt on Mitchell’s life, and the plot moves along quickly, alternating between Mitchell’s ....

Burkina Faso , United States , Marie Mitchell , Thomas Sakara , Lowy Institute , Lauren Wilkinson , American Spy , புர்கினா ஃபாஸொ , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , மேரி மிட்செல் , தாமஸ் சாகரா , தாழ்வான நிறுவனம் , லாரன் வில்கின்சன் , அமெரிக்கன் உளவு ,