Who wrote An Officer and a Spy?

Robert Harris wrote An Officer and a Spy, first published in 2013. It is a work of literary fiction and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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Essential Read

An Officer and a Spy

Name: An Officer and a Spy
Author: Robert Harris

by Robert Harris · 2013

Literary Fiction · ranked #216 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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