The Resource An officer and a spy, Robert Harris
An officer and a spy, Robert Harris
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- Summary
- "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 Devil's 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 Dreyfus's 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 timeliness--a 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Extent
- xi, 429 pages
- Note
- Originally published in Great Britain in 2013
- Isbn
- 9780385349581
- Link
- 9780385349581.jpg
- Label
- An officer and a spy
- Title
- An officer and a spy
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Harris
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 Devil's 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 Dreyfus's 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 timeliness--a 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Harris, Robert
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6058.A69147
- LC item number
- O33 2014
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Intelligence officers
- Dreyfus, Alfred
- FICTION / Espionage
- FICTION / Thrillers
- Label
- An officer and a spy, Robert Harris
- Link
- 9780385349581.jpg
- Note
- Originally published in Great Britain in 2013
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1521778
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Extent
- xi, 429 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385349581
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013044985
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1521778
- (OCoLC)846889309
- Label
- An officer and a spy, Robert Harris
- Link
- 9780385349581.jpg
- Note
- Originally published in Great Britain in 2013
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1521778
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Extent
- xi, 429 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385349581
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013044985
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1521778
- (OCoLC)846889309
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