Recommended Reading: “An Officer And A Spy” by Robert Harris

On Monday, I was ‘currently reading’ Robert Harris’s An Officer and A Spy (Arrow Books, 2014) and indicated that:

“…I’m about a third of the way through and am finding it really engaging reading.”

Well now I’ve finished and am happy to say that’s it’s a top-notch read from “go” to “whoa.” To recap, the book is a fictionalised account of true events, the so-called Dreyfus Affair. The novel begins with the conviction of a French army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, for spying and follows the gradual rea...