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Title	:	An Officer and a Spy
Author	:	Robert Harris
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 429 pages
Published	:	January 28th 2014 by Knopf (first published September 26th 2013)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Thriller. Cultural. France. Mystery

An Officer and a Spy

Robert Harris

Hardcover | Pages: 429 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 20717 Users | 2267 Reviews

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Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage.

Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that “proved” Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus’s guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself.

Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Harris tells a tale of uncanny timeliness––a witch hunt, secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a whistle-blower--richly dramatized with the singular storytelling mastery that has marked all of his internationally best-selling novels.

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Original Title:	An Officer and a Spy
ISBN:	0385349580 (ISBN13: 9780385349581)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Alfred Dreyfus, Georges Picquart
Setting:	France,1895
Literary Awards:	CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2014), Walter Scott Prize (2014)

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I've only read two other Robert Harris novels: Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, which I liked a lot and Enigma which I didn't like very much at all. So I didn't start this novel with any degree of confidence that it would appeal to me. Like many others, I was familiar with only the bare bones of the Dreyfus Affair: (a) Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army officer, was convicted of selling information to the Germans. (b) He was imprisoned on the notorious Devil's Island, but was ultimately

At the end of the 19th century France was consumed by an incident called The Dreyfus Affair where a man called Alfred Dreyfus was caught allegedly giving French military secrets to Germany. Robert Harris An Officer and a Spy, which is set directly in the aftermath of Dreyfus conviction, revisits the affair from the perspective of Georges Picquart, the newly appointed spymaster of French Intelligence, who discovers not only that Dreyfus was innocent but that there was a massive conspiracy behind

There is no such thing as a secret--not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and newspaper presses. The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed. Captain Alfred Dreyfuss mugshotGeorges Picquart was as convinced of Captain Alfred Dreyfuss guilt as anyone else in 1894. In fact for the invaluable service he provided during the affair he becomes the

A Literary Lawyer winner of a 2015 Gavel Award for* Best Historical Fiction My #4 Best Read for 2014 An Intriguing Look into Historical Scandal 5 Stars Robert Harris has written an intriguing thriller chronicling what is know as the Dreyfus affair. I don't blame you if you know nothing of this event as it was unknown to me when I open the novel. Fans of political thriller, historical fiction and history should find this to be a perfect mesh of genres. While I remain unable to separate the

An outstanding historical novel, recreating the Dreyfus affair in a way that raised my fury ... at disgusting official misconduct and coverup ... and at blatant antisemitism. Dreyfus himself is portrayed as a very flat and generally unlikable person, who was unlucky to be charged in the first place and then extremely fortunate that men like Picquart, Zola and Clemenceau cared about justice and the real honor of France.

Before reading this book I'd had a vague idea of a so-called Dreyfuss affair. After reading it, I was full of respect for Dreyfuss who showed stamina during the trial and even more for his ability to survive his isolation. Robert Harris did a wonderful job.

Classic Robert Harris - brilliant historical fiction based on the infamous 'Dreyfus affair'. This is Harris at his finest, a gripping fictionalised account of a fascinating true story. Harris brings history to life like no other. Accessible yet intelligent, popular not patronising. Compelling, evocative and thought provoking.