IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY. The winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014 this is a gripping historical thriller from Robert Harris - Sunday Times bestselling author of Fatherland and The Ghost. 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 Devils 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...
