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 ...

PARIS — Every time I return to France, I am reminded of America's debt to one of history's first whistleblowers. His name was Georges Picquart, a French army officer who uncovered a scandal that ...

Over 130 years after he stood trial for espionage, Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus made headlines last month when French President Emmanuel Macron declared July 12 the date the country would remember ...

Harris (Fatherland) provides easily the best fictional treatment of the Dreyfus Affair yet, in this gripping thriller told from the vantage point of French army officer Georges Picquart. Major ...

On a wintry March day in 1896, the newly appointed director to the French Army’s Statistical Bureau, Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, was sorting through a fresh pile of trash on his desk. The bureau ...

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 ...

Any controversy that might erupt over Roman Polanski’s decision to implicitly equate himself with one of history’s greatest victims of injustice is dissipated by the resultant film’s tepid ...

AN OFFICER AND A SPY By Robert Harris Alfred A Knopf, $27.95, 448 pages Writing about the trial and conviction of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus must be as enticing and daunting to a novelist as ...

Robert Harris, who pulls out a surprise with each new novel, has turned to this political scandal which "came to obsess France and ultimately the entire world". It happened 25 years after the Germans ...