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Knopf
February 2014
On Sale: January 28, 2014
Featuring: Alfred Dreyfus; Georges Picquart
448 pages
ISBN: 0385349580
EAN: 9780385349581
Kindle: B00EBRU05I
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Mystery Historical | Historical
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he
has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the
infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark,
hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has
just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life
imprisonment at Devil’s Island, and stripped of his rank in
front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the
witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the
ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the
counterespionage agency that “proved” Dreyfus had passed
secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes
in Dreyfus’s guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is
delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on
information that leads him to suspect that there is still a
spy at large in the French military. As evidence of the most
malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the
uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to
question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most
deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself. Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at
the turn of the twentieth century, Robert Harris tells a
tale of uncanny timeliness––a witch hunt, secret tribunals,
out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a
whistle-blower--richly dramatized with the singular
storytelling mastery that has marked all of his
internationally best-selling novels.
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