From the author of the best-selling novels The Fear Index, The Ghost Writer, Enigma, and Fatherland: a dark, hard-edged conspiracy and espionage thriller that tells the chilling true story of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. Paris, winter 1895. Georges Picquart is the ambitious, intellectual, recen
An Officer and a Spy
โ Scribed by Robert Harris
- Publisher
- Random House;Arrow Books
- Year
- 2013;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 271 KB
- Edition
- UK
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY . The winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014, this is a gripping historical thriller from Robert Harris - Sunday Times bestselling author of Fatherland and The Ghost.
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Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd.
Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down.
But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life...
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