An Officer and a Spy
#379 of 8,085 books · #74 in Historical Fiction
Won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2014) and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2014).
Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence until that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is forced to confront the dangerous truth that Dreyfus may be innocent. Soon Picquart is being drawn into a labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life.
- Publisher
- Random House
- ISBN-13
- 9781448151448
- Topics
Awards
- CWA Ian Fleming Steel DaggerWon(2014)
- Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionWon(2014)
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- Lustrum (2009)0 wins · 3 score
- Precipice (2024)0 wins · 3 score
- The Fear Index (2011)0 wins · 2 score
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