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“There is no such thing as a secret—not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and newspaper presses. The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed.”
Robert Harris is such an underrated writer, and in An Officer and a Spy he’s written probably his best book (though Fatherland is really great too). Mr. Harris has taken a true story—the Dreyfus Affair ...more
**2015 Reading Challenge W/Josh: #19 A Book Based On A True Story**
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