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The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Sam Greenlee		 An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black miltancy.
Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters." As a story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the book is autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.		 "Deadly"—Newsweek

"Blends James Bond parody with wit and rage."—Time

"An important, original, nitty-gritty book."—Dick Gregory
 
African American Life Series

$19.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2246-8

248 pages

1989 (1969 by Richard Baron Books)

For sale only in the United States, Canada, and the Philippines