They lied to safeguard their country. He informed the truth to save lots of it. A gripping historical thriller from the bestselling writer of FATHERLAND.

January 1895. On a freezing morning hours in the heart of Paris, an army official, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, becoming publicly humiliated before twenty thousand spectators baying ‘Loss of life to the Jew!’

The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is manufactured the French army’s youngest colonel and put in command of ‘the about An Officer and a Spy: Now a significant Motion Picture Statistical Section’ – the shadowy intelligence unit that tracked down Dreyfus.

The spy, meanwhile, is given a punishment of medieval cruelty: Dreyfus is shipped off to an eternity of solitary confinement on Devil’s Island – unable to talk with anyone, not even his guards, his case seems closed forever.

But gradually Picquart involves believe there is something rotten at the heart from the Statistical Section. When he discovers another German spy operating on French dirt, his superiors are oddly hesitant to pursue it. Despite formal warnings, Picquart persists, and shortly the officer as well as the spy are in the same predicament…

Narrated by Picquart, An Officer and a Spy is normally a engaging recreation of a scandal that became the most famous miscarriage of justice ever sold. Compelling, too, will be the echoes for our modern world: an cleverness agency eliminated rogue, justice corrupted in the name of nationwide security, a newspaper witch-hunt of the persecuted minority, and the age-old instinct of those in capacity to cover-up their offences.