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An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris

By Anna Franco

Sep 19, 2018
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An Officer and a Spy

by Robert Harris

New York: Vintage Books, 2014.

429 pp. $16.95 (softcover).

An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris, is a riveting fictionalization of the Dreyfus Affair—an espionage case that began in France at the end of the 19th century. Harris opens this award-winning book in Paris in 1895, during a period of widespread anti-Semitism…

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