National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2013.
They lied to protect their country.
He told the truth to save it.
It is a gripping historical thriller from the bestselling author of Fatherland.
January 1895.
On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying 'Death to the Jew!' The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is ma.