An Officer and a Spy
Now a Major Motion Picture
Robert Harris
- They
- lied
- to
- protect
- their
- country.
- He
- told
- the
- truth
- to
- save
- it.
- A
- gripping
- historical
- thriller
- from
- the
- bestselling
- author
- of
- FATHERLAND.January
- 1895.
- On
- a
- freezing
- morning
- in
- the
- heart
- of
- Paris,
- an
- army
- officer,
- Georges
- Picquart,
- witnesses
- a
- convicted
- spy,
- Captain
- Alfred
- Dreyfus,
- being
- publicly
- humiliated
- in
- front
- of
- twenty
- thousand
- spectators
- baying
- 'Death
- to
- the
- Jew!'The
- officer
- is
- rewarded
- with
- promotion:
- Picquart
- is
- made
- the
- French
- army's
- youngest
- colonel
- and
- put
- in
- command
- of
- 'the
- Statistical
- Section'
- -
- the
- shadowy
- intelligence
- unit
- that
- tracked
- down
- Dreyfus.The
- spy,
- meanwhile,
- is
- given
- a
- punishment
- of
- medieval
- cruelty:
- Dreyfus
- is
- shipped
- off
- to
- a
- lifetime
- of
- solitary
- confinement
- on
- Devil's
- Island
- -
- unable
- to
- speak
- to
- anyone,
- not
- even
- his
- guards,
- his
- case
- seems
- closed
- forever.But
- gradually
- Picquart
- comes
- to
- believe
- there
- is
- something
- rotten
- at
- the
- heart
- of
- the
- Statistical
- Section.
- When
- he
- discovers
- another
- German
- spy
- operating
- on
- French
- soil,
- his
- superiors
- are
- oddly
- reluctant
- to
- pursue
- it.
- Despite
- official
- warnings,
- Picquart
- persists,
- and
- soon
- the
- officer
- and
- the
- spy
- are
- in
- the
- same
- predicament.Narrated
- by
- Picquart,
- An
- Officer
- and
- a
- Spy
- is
- a
- compelling
- recreation
- of
- a
- scandal
- that
- became
- the
- most
- famous
- miscarriage
- of
- justice
- in
- history.
- Compelling,
- too,
- are
- the
- echoes
- for
- our
- modern
- world:
- an
- intelligence
- agency
- gone
- rogue,
- justice
- corrupted
- in
- the
- name
- of
- national
- security,
- a
- newspaper
- witch-hunt
- of
- a
- persecuted
- minority,
- and
- the
- age-old
- instinct
- of
- those
- in
- power
- to
- cover-up
- their crimes.
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