An Officer and a Spy

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<p><b>IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY<i>.</i>The winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014, this is a gripping historical thriller from Robert Harris <i>Sunday Times</i>bestselling author of<i>Fatherland</i>and<i>The Ghost</i>.</b> <b></b> Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd.</p><p>Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down.</p><p>But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life...</p>

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Robert Harris is the author of twelve bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy -<i>Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy</i>, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction,<i>Conclave</i>and most recently,<i>Munich</i>. Several of his books have been filmed, including<i>The Ghos</i>t, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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