American Spy

A gutsy new thriller … challenging boundaries is what brave fiction does, and Wilkinson proves confident enough to carry it off - New York Times

For the novel’s engaging intelligence and serious reckoning with the world’s postwar order, Wilkinson deserves the comparisons to John le Carre she’s already receiving. But in bringing a virtually unheard-from fictional viewpoint to espionage literature, she has reinvigorated the genre - Time

An intelligent and propulsive debut tackles issues of politics, race, gender and moral ambiguity - Guardian

Mitchell is an engaging, complex protagonist: feisty and brave but also vulnerable … The scenes of New York and African life are sharply observed, the narrative often lyrical. This is an impressive debut, with a multi-faceted and engaging protagonist - Financial Times

Wilkinson paints a convincing and lively portrait of this fascinating real-life figure. A non-privileged protagonist in this poshest of genres is rare enough to make that the USP, but by any standards this is a fine thriller, thoughtful and dryly witty, richly textured and, when required, pacy and very exciting - Daily Telegraph

A whole lot more than just a spy thriller, wrapping together the ties of family, of love and of country