An officer and a spy
by Robert Harris · first published 2014
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"Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that "proved" Dreyfus had p
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…LeCarre (novel, honestly not one of his best) - *The Night Manager* (TV miniseries--much better than the book!) - *The Ghost Writer* by Robert Harris (novel) - *The Ghost Writer* (movie) - *An Officer and a Spy* by Robert Harris (excellent and extensively researched historical novel, based on the Dreyfus Affair in Paris circa 1900) - *J'Accuse (An Officer and a Spy)* (movie) [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbebOhnCjA
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite piece of entertainment of the last three years?” ↗According to the footer, "Robert Harris is the author of a forthcoming novel about Georges Picquart, “An Officer and a Spy.” ". Actually, it appears to be out since September: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00COMWJG0/
on “The Whistle-Blower Who Freed Dreyfus” ↗> Author doesn't seem to know what the difference between a sigint organization NSA/GCHQ and a Humint one is or even what the difference between an officer and a spy is. To the contrary, he specifically contrasts humint with sigint: " Spying may be worthwhile in cases where it is very hard or very costly to produce misleading information. Two potential cases are…
on “Why spies never discover anything useful” ↗