Robert Harris
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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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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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| Title | : | An Officer and a Spy |
| Author | : | Robert Harris |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First 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 |
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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.I loved this audiobook. One of the best historical fiction spy thrillers I've read in a long time.Highly recommend.5 out of 5 stars.
In 1898 the French newspaper LAurore printed an open letter from writer Emile Zola. Under the banner headline Jaccuse!, Zola accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. The letter caused a huge a uproar, as Zola pointed out the serious errors in the case against Dreyfus who had been packed off to the notorious Devils Island in French Guyana - and a lack of serious evidence to back up the charges.The Dreyfus Affair, as it became known,
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
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.
Robert Harris has done it again. He has written a historical novel that dragged me in so deep that it made me feel uncomfortable as if I was the protagonist. Nail-biting stuff. This time the book is about the Dreyfus affair, a real historic event that took place in between 1894 and 1906.The story is told by Colonel Georges Picquart, who becomes head of counter-espionage and finds out that there is something really fishy about the whole affair.This affair had the whole country (France) devided at
Like many people, I am aware of the Dreyfus affair that took place in France in the late 19th century, but my knowledge was mostly peripheral. I knew that Alfred Dreyfus was a French soldier who was accused of spying on France for the Germans. I was born and raised Jewish, so it was also part of my heritage to recognize the persecuted Jews of the past. Harriss novel awakened my understanding of the political and social climate of that period in history, and informed me of how this colossal
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