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Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction British National Book Awards—Popular Fiction Book of the Year“Outstanding . . . Finds its chilling thrills in the unlikeliest of places.” —USA Today“[A] superb historical thriller. . . . Thick with scenes of code-breaking, covert surveillance, hairsbreadth escapes and violent death.” —The Wall Street Journal   “Harris has, with this novel, taken [Le Carré’s] place as the master of making documents and scraps of paper, the details of painstaking intelligence work, into drama. ” —The Daily Beast   “[Harris] outdoes himself. The period details are pitch-perfect . . . and the action pulses with intensity.” —The Miami Herald “A gripping tale.” —The New York Times“Mesmerizing. . . . The Dreyfus affair remains astonishing, and this exceptional piece of popular fiction does it justice.”     —The Washington Post“A thrilling page-turner. . . . Thick with espionage, daring and cruel turns of fate.”    —New York Daily News“A crisp, fast-paced drama. . . . From one of the great scandals of the late 19th century, Harris has written a novel which is true to the facts, scrupulously so, but reads like a combination of Le Carré at his best and Conan Doyle writing about Sherlock Holmes.”    —The Daily Beast“Robert Harris’s novel speaks to our times in its examination of the potential dangers of military intelligence.”    —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“A compelling narrative of state corruption. . . . While finely attuned to modern resonances of surveillance, cultural identity and patriotic loyalty, Harris stays true to the atmosphere and morals of the period.”    —The Guardian (UK)“A master storyteller at the top of his game. . . . The echoes of our own time are deafening. But Harris is far too smart to labor the point. He just drives his story forward, marshalling his cast of fools and knaves, soldiers and spies, dodgy handwriting experts and discreet mistresses, to superlative effect.”    —Mail on Sunday (UK)“Claustrophobically gripping. . . . Written in elegant prose reminiscent of the 19th-century historical novel, but its form is a hybrid of the contemporary thriller, the spy novella and the courtroom drama. It is persuasive and engaging on all of these levels, while providing a unique and fresh reading of the Dreyfus affair.”     —The Irish Times“Instantly absorbing. . . . Great for fans of Ken Follett, John le Carré, Louis Bayard, Caleb Carr, and Martin Cruz Smith.”    —Booklist (starred review)“Easily the best fictional treatment of the Dreyfus Affair. . . . Harris perfectly captures the rampant anti-Semitism that led to Dreyfus’s scapegoating.”     —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Espionage, counterespionage, a scandalous trial, a cover-up, and a man who tries to do right make this a complex and alluring thriller.”    —Kirkus Reviews

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About the Author

Robert Harris is the author of eight bestselling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost Writer, Conspirata, and The Fear Index. Several of his books have been adapted to film, most recently The Ghost Writer. Harris’s work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in the village of Kintbury, West Berkshire, with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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Product details

Paperback: 429 pages

Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (October 28, 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0345804856

ISBN-13: 978-0345804853

Product Dimensions:

5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.5 out of 5 stars

1,492 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#32,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

If you pick this book up and think you're going to put it down again, think again. A combination of spy, detective and court room genres, that actually concerns an actual historical event. It addresses the moral complexities of obeying orders, going along to benefit one's career versus taking the moral right course. In this respect the subjects explored here are timeless. What is courage even in the face of overwhelming bureaucratic and societal resistance? This novel explores these timeless, historical themes with actual historical characters that are expertly and believably fleshed out. If you've heard of the Dreyfus affair but are not sure what it was or think it was some dusty historical anomaly that has no relevance to today, think again. It is supremely relevant to today's politics. This book would make an excellent film, but read it, you won't want it to end.

To call this a spy thriller is to diminish its quality.it is of course a spy thriller and a fascinating detective story but it is much more than that.I believe that it is Harris best and one of the few outstanding dramatic action historical novels of all timesIt is the narrative of the Grand Drama,political,military and human that took place in France between the late 19th and the early 20th Centuries,the Dreyfus affair.All main characters of the novel are real historical persons.The wrongly accused as a German spy Major Dreyfus a French Officer and an Alsatian Jew, a model of stoicism,a man of professional and family values,portrayed superbly by the Author as History delivered him to posterity,a man of schoolmasterish appearance and enormous inner strength who suffered his own Calvary because of the prejudice that haunts his Race, before his exoneration .The principal character, Colonel Picquart,an Alsatian himself narrates the story in the first person.He is the new Head of the Statistical Section which is the front for the French Army's counterespionage team.He knew the Dreyfus affair from the beginning but did not initially challenged it.He is the subject of a superbly drawn psychological and physical portrait by the Author,he is so vividly described by Harris as he really was that one feels that knows him.Picquart ,while no Saint and with the limitations of his profession and his social class,is a man of integrity,intelligence and dogged determination as well as a crafty bureaucratic fighter that knows the system well.The rest of the characters are extremely well described and formed and a number of different historical persons that make Cameo appearances build an excellent understanding for the Reader about the French Society of those times with its deep political divisions and prejudices and the French Army's Trauma from its defeat by the Germans 25 years before.The story is essentially the struggle for the truth to come out fighting against the Establishment and an Administration that will go a long way to cover its crime of condemning an innocent man for reasons of politics and prejudicesThe Author,a master of elegant descriptive prose,with a magnificent economy of style revives the era ,it's characters and the surrounding atmosphere,respecting the historical truth but embellishing it with rich talented descriptions of situations,actors,ideas and feelings so that the part of the plot that is already known is only the skeleton of the harmoniously fleshed out story.The story can be read as a thriller or as a novel of high literary value because it is both.I did not have a single dull moment reading it.It is strongly recommended for both the casual and the intellectual reader,there is intrigue,action, thrills and quality to satisfy all.DVK

This book has all the ingredients of a top notch spy thriller - intelligence services, secret agents, betrayals, intrigue, life and death, cover-ups, sex (a little, anyway), murder, suspense - except it's all true. And according to the author, all the characters, even the minor ones, are real. The most interesting aspect is that, although it reads like a modern adventure, it actually takes place in 1890's France.The story is told in first person, present tense. This infrequently used technique adds to the immediacy (or "presence") of the book. By doing this, the author causes you to feel as if you are in the scene, and you in effect live the book as the main character lives the tale. Further, the text is filled with rich, colorful language which is a pleasure to read. It is full of period and colloquial words and constructions, transporting your mind into the era while you read.It is about a man named Alfred Dreyfus, a French army major accused of treason, and is told by another French officer, Marie-Georges Picquart, who jeopardizes his career to get to the bottom of the story. There are innumerable plot twists and changes in direction, events unfold in unexpected ways, and the outcome is most certainly not what you think. The main characters are exceedingly well developed, causing you to know them and feel their triumphs and especially their tribulations. By the time you reach the end of the book (which spans most of the final decade of the nineteenth century) you have come to intimately know some new people, you are appalled at the corruption and subterfuge that exists at the highest levels of government, you are thrilled by the accomplishments and successes of the heroes, and you are disappointed by unfortunate realities that can't be written away in a fiction-based novel.This book is a pleasure to read. I read a few books by this author a few years ago, then rediscovered him with this one. He is very good at what he does. Read it, and take your time to enjoy it.

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