An Officer and a Spy: Now a Major Motion Picture Audiobook (Free)

They lied to protect their country. He informed the truth to save it. A gripping historical thriller through the bestselling writer of FATHERLAND.

January 1895. On the freezing morning hours in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, getting publicly humiliated before twenty thousand spectators baying ‘Loss of life to the Jew!’

The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is manufactured the French army’s youngest colonel and devote command of ‘the about An Officer and a Spy: Now a Major Motion Picture 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 – struggling to talk with anyone, not even his guards, his case seems closed forever.

But gradually Picquart involves believe there is something rotten in the centre of the Statistical Section. When he discovers another German spy operating on French dirt, his superiors are oddly reluctant to pursue it. Despite official warnings, Picquart persists, and soon the officer as well as the spy are in the same predicament…

Narrated by Picquart, An Official and a Spy is normally a convincing recreation of the scandal that became the most famous miscarriage of justice in history. Compelling, too, will be the echoes for our contemporary globe: an cleverness agency eliminated rogue, justice corrupted in the name of national security, a newspapers witch-hunt of a persecuted minority, and the age-old instinct of these in capacity to cover-up their crimes.