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An Officer and a Spy
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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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 Devils 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 Dreyfuss 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 timelinessa 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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AlaMich
AlaMich
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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“Major Picquart to see the Minister of War…”
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

A novel about the historical Dreyfus Affair, late 1890s France, in which a Jewish officer in the French army was (knowingly) wrongly convicted of treason and sent to Devil‘s Island. Picquart was the officer who came to believe in his innocence.

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Astroneman
Astroneman
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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So long and so slowly.....🥱

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Kristelh
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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#doublespin

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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
Penny_LiteraryHoarders
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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After waffling about trying to find my next read, starting and stopping at least 4 books, I‘m going to settle on An Officer and a Spy.

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majkia
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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#bookspin #TheAromaofBooks

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majkia
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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#TheAromaofBooks #bookspin

majkia well, that's funny! My #bookspin book for the month is the only book on the list I'd already begun to read Jack the Bodiless! Lucky me! #TheAromaofBooks (edited) 4y
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majkia
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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#bookspin #TheAromaofBooks

My choices for April. Spring is more than welcome here!

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majkia
majkia
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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#bookspin

TheAromaofBooks I saw your comment on my post so I came over to check out your list!! 😂 I don't know why the tagging aspect of Litsy can be weird. I usually just use @ instead of the “tag someone“ button. Anyway, glad to have you along!! 4y
majkia Thanks! 4y
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Racka
Racka
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
Pickpick

I've read this book twice now and enjoyed it just as much second time around. I love it when a book teaches me something about history or that gets me reading more about a subject. This, another winner from Harris, got me doing just that.

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Andrew65
Andrew65
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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Pickpick

For the first third of a book I struggled to get in the flow of this book, but from that point onwards it really took off and I couldn‘t put the book down. Once again Robert Harris produces a great thriller, using the backdrop of he Dreyfus Spy Affair in France in the 1890s. How far will people go to cover up their previous faulty and werong actions and keep a hold on power! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😍

EadieB I do remember the beginning was slow! 7y
Andrew65 @EadieB Yes then suddenly wham! 7y
EadieB @Andrew65 It didn‘t let up once it got started! Loved it! 7y
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Andrew65
Andrew65
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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Finally starting this one by Robert Harris, I picked up the book in July 2014! #MakeMeReadIt #YearOfTheChukster

EadieB I liked this one! Think you will too! Great author! 7y
Andrew65 @EadieB Couldn‘t agree more, love his books! 7y
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Cinfhen
Cinfhen
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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#BackPackEurope What a week I spent fully immersed in the tangle web of lies, betrayals, sinister plots, outrageous coverups and blatant anti Semitic injustice. This sweeping historical fiction novel was full of absorbing plots and real life figures making for a compelling read. There were numerous references to Normandy but sadly no mention of #MountSaintMichele @JenP I‘m heading to #AvignonFestival to put the Dreyfus Affair behind me.

Andrew65 Reading this in August. Love Robert Harris books. 7y
Cinfhen It‘s really good @Andrew65 7y
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Cinfhen
Cinfhen
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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#BackpackEurope left Spain for France 🚆traveling back in time to 1890‘s Paris and the infamous Dreyfus Affair 🚨

Cinfhen @jenp 7y
Cathythoughts That looks like a good one. Looking forward to your thoughts 7y
BarbaraBB Oh the Dreyfus Affair... interesting. I‘ve been reading Proust and its in there all the time too. 7y
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SusanInTiburon
SusanInTiburon
An Officer and a Spy: A novel | Robert Harris
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Pickpick

The Dreyfus Affair: a familiar historical tag freighted with such significance that you may feel you already know all about it. But do you? If not, this transfixing novelization will help you understand, and remember forever, this outrageous story of ant-semitism, espionage, cover-up, and crusade.

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