An Officer and a Spy
by Robert Harris · 2013
Literary Fiction · ranked #215 in category
Winner · The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, 2014
The Dreyfus Affair — the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of Jewish French army officer Alfred Dreyfus for treason in 1894 — is told from the perspective of Colonel Georges Picquart, who discovers the cover-up and tries to expose it from within a hostile institution. Harris's Walter Scott Prize-winning novel is both a spy thriller and a study in institutional injustice.
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