Sam Greenlee

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Black CIA operative infiltrates organizations to prevent African-American uprising and revolution

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Sam Greenlee

Sam Greenlee wrote The Spook Who Sat by the Door, a politically explosive novel of a Black CIA officer who uses his training to lead an urban insurrection, which was filmed and then suppressed. It is a landmark of Black nationalist fiction.

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