Robert Harris' outstanding new espionage novel finds its chilling thrills in the unlikeliest of places — the notorious Dreyfus Affair that gripped France from 1894 to 1906. You may have a fuzzy ...

One man stands alone against the established order as another wastes away on the penal colony at Devil’s Island, while the actual traitor parties with his four-fingered mistress. The political scandal ...

“There is no such thing as a secret – not really, not in the modern world.” It doesn’t matter what your privacy settings are on Facebook, all our information is going to get out: if we didn’t suspect ...

Here’s what’s fascinating about “Prisoner of Honor,” HBO’s made-for-TV movie about the infamous Dreyfus Affair. Richard Dreyfuss, the star of the film, doesn’t play Alfred Dreyfus, the main character ...

AN OFFICER AND A SPY By Robert Harris. Hutchinson. 483pp. $32.95. Robert Harris specialises in novels that are based in part on historical figures, including characters as disparate as Cicero in ...

Jean Dujardin stars in Roman Polanski’s careful reconstruction of the Dreyfus affair, based on Robert Harris’ novel, 'An Officer and a Spy.' By Deborah Young One couldn’t wish for a more painstakingly ...

Georges Picquart, the narrator of "An Officer and a Spy" (Knopf, 429 pages, $27.95), Robert Harris's superb historical thriller set mostly in France before and after the turn of the 20th century, is a ...

Robert Harris specialises in novels that are based in part on historical figures, including characters as disparate as Cicero in ancient Rome and Tony Blair in modern Britain. This can be a difficult ...