An officer and a spy
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Published
New York : Vintage, 2014.
ISBN
9780345804853, 0345804856
Status
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION HARRIS, R.
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FICTION HARRIS, R.
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Published
New York : Vintage, 2014.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780345804853, 0345804856
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January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying 'Death to the Jew!' The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army's youngest colonel and put in command of 'the 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 a lifetime of solitary confinement on Devil's Island--unable to speak to anyone, not even his guards, his case seems closed forever. But gradually Picquart comes to believe there is something rotten at the heart of the Statistical Section. When he discovers another German spy operating on French soil, his superiors are oddly reluctant to pursue it. Despite official warnings, Picquart persists, and soon the officer and the spy are in the same predicament. Narrated by Picquart, An Officer and a Spy is a compelling recreation of a scandal that became the most famous miscarriage of justice in history. Compelling, too, are the echoes for our modern world: an intelligence agency gone rogue, justice corrupted in the name of national security, a newspaper witch-hunt of a persecuted minority, and the age-old instinct of those in power to cover-up their crimes.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Harris, R. (2014). An officer and a spy (First Vintage book edition.). Vintage.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harris, Robert, 1957-. 2014. An Officer and a Spy. Vintage.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harris, Robert, 1957-. An Officer and a Spy Vintage, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Harris, Robert. An Officer and a Spy First Vintage book edition., Vintage, 2014.
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