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A Spy in the Struggle

A Riveting Must-Read Novel of Suspense

by Aya de León
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An Amazon Best of the Month Selection
The Washington Post Featured Thriller That Will Have You On The Edge Of Your Seat
Bustle's Most Anticipated Reads for December
Book Riot Featured Hispanic Heritage Month Book
CrimeReads Most Anticipated Crime Books of Fall 2020
Novel Suspects Featured December New Release

"A passionately felt stand-alone with an affecting personal story at its center."
—The Washington Post

Winner of the International Latino Book Award, Aya de Leon, returns with a thrilling and timely story of feminism, climate, and corporate justice—as one successful lawyer must decide whether to put everything on the line to right the deep inequities faced in one under-served Bay Area, California community.

Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when her prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI, Yolanda turns in her corrupt bosses to save her career—and goes to work for the Bureau. Soon she's sent undercover at Red, Black, and Green—an African-American "extremist" activist group back in her California college town. They claim a biotech corporation fueled by Pentagon funding is exploiting the neighborhood. But Yolanda is determined to put this assignment in her win column, head back to corporate law, and regain her comfortable life...

Until an unexpected romance opens her heart—and a suspicious death opens her eyes. Menacing dark money forces will do anything to bury Yolanda and the movement. Fueled by memories of who she once was—and what once really mattered most—how can she tell those who've come to trust her that she's been spying? As the stakes escalate, and one misstep could cost her life, Yolanda will have to choose between betraying the cause of her people or invoking the wrath of the country's most powerful law enforcement agency.

"Part of a new wave of espionage fiction from authors of color and women, many of whom place emphasis on the disturbing nature of being forced to spy on one's own."
—Crime Reads, Most Anticipated Books of Fall

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    December 29, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781496728616

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      • ISBN: 9781496728616
      • File size: 1900 KB

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      January 1, 2021
      Author of the celebrated Justice Hustlers series, de Le�n offers her first stand-alone about a young Black woman, Yolanda Vance, whose single-track pursuit of success was derailed when her Wall Street law firm was indicted for fraud, and she refused to shred documents. Ostracized from corporate law, she takes a job as an FBI attorney in Manhattan but is suddenly transferred to the Bay Area and asked to infiltrate a group of Black eco-activists protesting wrongdoing by a biotech firm with headquarters in a low-income area near Oakland. Initially convinced that the activists pose a legitimate threat to government research, Yolanda dutifully does what she's told, even planting bugs in the activists' offices. Gradually, though, her commitment wavers as she comes to see how far the agency will go to protect the company's malfeasance; meanwhile, she's drawn into a steamy romance with one of the activists, forcing her to make dangerous choices. Although the plot unspools a bit predictably, de Le�n delivers a suspenseful finale while skillfully building Vance into a rich, many-sided character. An electric blend of romantic suspense, feminism, and socially conscious thriller.

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