IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY***Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction*** 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 Devil's Island;
Paperback edition. A compelling recreation of the scandal of an intelligence agency gone rogue, a newspaper witch-hunt of a persecuted minority, the age-old instinct of those in power to cover-up their crimes; the Dreyfus Affair, the most famous miscarriage of justice in history. Film rights sold with Roman Polanski directing.
