An Officer and a Spy
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction | 2014 | Winner |
About This Book
Robert Harris's novelisation of the Dreyfus Affair is narrated by Colonel Georges Picquart, the intelligence officer who discovered that Alfred Dreyfus had been wrongly convicted of treason and embarked on a campaign to expose the conspiracy. Meticulous and gripping, the novel dramatises one of the great miscarriages of justice in modern history. It won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2014.
About the Author
Robert Harris is a British novelist and journalist born in 1957 in Nottingham. After studying English at Cambridge, he worked as a political journalist for the BBC and newspapers before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of Fatherland (1992), an alternative history set in a Nazi-ruled Europe. Subsequent novels include Archangel (1998), Pompeii (2003), Imperium (2006), The Ghost (2007, adapted by Roman Polanski), The Fear Index (2011), and the Cicero trilogy. Read more →
