The Spook Who Sat by the Door
originally aired on FX
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), by Sam Greenlee, is the fictional story of Dan Freeman, the first black CIA officer. It is set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in the Chicago of Mayor Richard J. Daley. The novel has been characterised as "part thriller, part satire and part social commentary"