An Officer and a Spy

Informationen zum Autor Robert Harris is the author of thirteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium! Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland! Enigma! Archangel! Pompeii! The Ghost! The Fear Index! An Officer and a Spy! which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction! Conclave! Munich and The Second Sleep. Several of his books have been filmed! including The Ghost! which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife! Gill Hornby. Klappentext IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY! HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Now a feature film! winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019 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 unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans! he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life... A breathtaking historical spy thriller from Robert Harris! author of Munich! Fatherland! The Second Sleep and the acclaimed Cicero trilogy. Zusammenfassung IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY! HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Now a feature film! winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019 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 unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans! he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life... A breathtaking historical spy thriller from Robert Harris! author of Munich! Fatherland! The Second Sleep and the acclaimed Cicero trilogy. ...

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IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY

Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Now a feature film, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019

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 unit that tracked him down.

But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life...

A breathtaking historical spy thriller from Robert Harris, author of Munich, Fatherland, The Second Sleep and the acclaimed Cicero trilogy.

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IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY

*Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction*
*Now a feature film, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019*

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 unit that tracked him down.

But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life...

A breathtaking historical spy thriller from Robert Harris, author of Munich, Fatherland, The Second Sleep and the acclaimed Cicero trilogy.