AN OFFICER AND A SPY | ROBERT HARRIS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Author: Robert Harris Publisher: Hutchinson (2013) ISBN-10: 0091944562 ISBN-13: 9780091944568 Condition: Very Good. Minor wear to cover edges and corners. Binding: Softcover Pages: 483 Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.3 x 3.7 cm +++ by Robert Harris +++ 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 'Death to the Jew!' The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army's youngest colonel and put in command of 'the Statistical Section' - 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 Devil's Island - 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.