An officer and a spy
Title:
An officer and a spy
Author:
Harris, Robert, 1957-
ISBN:
9780091944568
Publication Information:
London : Hutchinson, 2013
Physical Description:
483 p. ; 24 cm
General Note:
Winner of CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2014.
Abstract:
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!' Picquart is made the French army's youngest colonel and put in command of 'the Statistical Section'.
Subject:
| Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935 -- Fiction |
| Picquart, Georges, 1854-1914 -- Fiction |
| Intelligence officers -- France -- Fiction |
| France -- History, Military -- Fiction |
| Spy stories |
| Historical fiction |
| Suspense fiction |
Summary:
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!' Picquart is made the French army's youngest colonel and put in command of 'the Statistical Section'.