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An Officer and a Spy
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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Publisher's Summary
They lied to protect their country. He told the truth to save it. A gripping historical thriller from the bestselling author of Fatherland.
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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- The McBeans
- 16-02-2020
First rate historical novel
A terrific story, well written and well read. All up, very well told and utterly absorbing. On top of that, the story is timely. In essence, it’s a story of fake news and competing narratives relevant to our current politics. Highly recommended.
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- dorothy
- 28-07-2019
Wonderful read.
Robert Harris is my favourite author. He immerses his stories authentically in their time and makes history believable and understandable. I especially like the way he caught the attitudes of the men who lead the army; their ignorance and prejudices. The same weaknesses are very clear in our current political situation. Are we always to be in the clutches of these decision makers of our world?
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- Yev
- 08-10-2019
Amazing book and amazing performance.
A fantastic performance of an incredible story. The sad truth is that modern military organisations still operate in much the same way. Have we not learnt anything?
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- Brett W.
- 18-02-2019
Robert Harris' Best Work...
Well, that is my humble opinion.
Great story.
Well written.
And superbly preformed. David Rintoul is without peer.
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- Russell Ayres
- 06-11-2023
Great story, well read
Harris steers among the shoals of historical fiction adroitly. The reading brings humanity to a fascinating era and episode.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-05-2021
Great story and so well read!
As a story, one couldn't give the Dreyfus Affair any less than 5 stars, you couldn't make it up! Narrated here by Georges Picquart in fictional form, an excellent device. The dramatic reading is first rate.
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- hugh h
- 14-01-2023
a gripping historical novel
this story had me involved immediately. like many non French I had heard of the infamous Dreyfus affair but knew very little about it. I now understand the background story in a very enjoyable way.
the Narrator is perfect
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- Anonymous User
- 12-02-2020
Mediocrity at best
An intriguing and infuriating historical episode is rendered stodgy by laborious writing that shows not tells the story.
I put my head in my hands and sighed.
16 hours later I feel nothing towards any of the characters, except anger on behalf of Dreyfus who got about three lines in.
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