The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Their first mistake was letting him in. Their biggest mistake was letting him out!
A politically charged thriller about infiltration and revolution that uses genre conventions to explore systemic racism and the possibility of armed resistance.
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.
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