A fast-paced, tightly-plotted delight of an espionage novel. Chloe Gong adds in magic, romance, and supernatural killings for one of the best cross-genre works I’ve read.
This historical fiction YA is set in 1931 Shanghai and features two pairs of spies-one nationalist, the other communist-as they go deep undercover and try to prevent the coming Japanese invasion. Bazawule brings to life a moment of great political tumult and consequence, but with a human story at the center, as the characters try to carve out a bit of peace for themselves in a world that seems hellbent on delivering them violence. With an FBI agent on their trail, the Americans look for refuge from an old friend, the African nation’s new President, himself a target of CIA plotting and subterfuge. – DMīlitz Bazawule, The Scent of Burnt FlowersĪfter a terrifying attack, a Black couple flees Alabama and ends up with new identities and a new life in 1960s Ghana, in this powerful debut from Blitz Bazawule. Bradby paints an expansive portrait of a city and a political era rarely seen in fiction. The search takes him through an odyssey of backroom deals, foreign power jockeying, and political tensions that are quickly on their way to a boil.
In 1952, an old hand from British intelligence, recently retired and widowed, travels to Tehran to search for his vanished son, a reporter who has published highly damaging information about government officials and the opium trade. Bradby’s historical novel manages to be a nuanced meditation on a father and son’s relationship and a dizzying, entertaining swirl of international politics and spycraft.
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