An Officer and a Spy

from mikedraper

This is an excellent retelling of the Alfred Dreyfus affair that was the subject on most Frenchman's minds in the mid 1890s. As tensions worsen between France and Germany, a source reveals that there is a French spy in the Army providing military information to Germany. The French spy is said to ...

from ajungherr

Excellent novel on the Dreyfus-Affair centering on the story of Georges Picquart, an early French spy master, and the consequences of politically motivated bureaucratic group-think.

from brenzi

I knew very little about the infamous Dreyfus Affair until recently when I was reminded of it while reading Margaret MacMillan's new WWI history The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914. Fortuitously, I heard rumblings of a great new spy novel by Robert Harris and picked up An Officer and a Spy...

from Kristelh

Reason Read: Jewish Book Club pick I have been very interested in the Dreyfus Affair and this is a perfect book to read. This is a novelization of a true story.It tells the true story of the French officer Georges Picquart from 1896 to 1906, as he struggles to expose the truth about the doctored ...

from oparaxenos

What a good read this was! I picked up the book while I was on two long plane journeys and I simply could not put it down -- within two days I had raced through all 450 pages, and I am not a fast reader. Harris weaves a real thriller, and his achievement is all the more remarkable when one consid...