{"product_id":"an-officer-and-a-spy-a-novel-9780385349581","title":"An Officer and a Spy: A novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert 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 Devils 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 Dreyfuss 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 timelinessa 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652307443765,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385349580","price":32.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385349581.jpg?v=1781850842","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/an-officer-and-a-spy-a-novel-9780385349581","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}