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American Spy
by Lauren Wilkinson
I finished this book in 2 days, which for an audiobook is QUICK. Bahni Turpin once again does a story complete justice; she is one of my favorite narrators.
American Spy is at once a complex and simple story. The writing is utterly engrossing. It’s told as a semi-epistolary novel - a mother writing the story of her life to her twin sons. If it weren’t based on a true story I’d say some of it is too far-fetched for fiction, but the way the US and USSR behaves in Africa in the Cold War is astonishing.
I recommend this to people who love spy novels, or those who usually lean toward nonfiction and are looking for something to bridge the fiction/nonfiction gap.
American Spy is at once a complex and simple story. The writing is utterly engrossing. It’s told as a semi-epistolary novel - a mother writing the story of her life to her twin sons. If it weren’t based on a true story I’d say some of it is too far-fetched for fiction, but the way the US and USSR behaves in Africa in the Cold War is astonishing.
I recommend this to people who love spy novels, or those who usually lean toward nonfiction and are looking for something to bridge the fiction/nonfiction gap.