The life of Sam Greenlee (Chicago, 1930-2014), the author ofOur CIA infiltrator, brings to mind a James Bond film written and directed by Spike Lee. A descendant of the Deep South, with all the terrible and tragic heritage—slavery—that this entails, Greenlee was a diligent and meritorious student and made his way in the United States, structurally deformed by white segregationist racism. As a teenager and young adult, he participated in organizations promoting black civil rights, studied at several universities (political science), and finally joined the army, where he served for two years. From there, he moved to the U.S. Information Agency (diplomacy, propaganda, espionage) and became one of the first black agents deployed abroad. He served in Iraq, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Greece. Having already left the service, in 1969 he gained considerable literary notoriety with Our CIA infiltrator, which makes one think of the novel Catch-22 by Josep Heller but as if it had been rewritten by Malcolm X and Richard Pryor.