An Officer and a Spy - Robert Harris
Robert Harris
KORTE INHOUD
National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2013 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 âe~Death to the Jew!âe(tm) The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French armyâe(tm)s youngest colonel and put in command of âe~the Statistical Sectionâe(tm) âe" 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 Devilâe(tm)s Island âe" 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 Germa...
