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Episode Transcript
This is the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Robert
Harris is a novelist and historian who's brought us fascinating
books such as Fatherland and Conclave, among others, and one
from twenty thirteen, a historical fiction thriller called An Officer
and a Spy, the story of French officer George Picard,
who's assigned to run the Statistical Section, the top tier
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of French military intelligence, investigating the Alfred Dreyfus affair. Dreyfus,
a Jew, was convicted of espionage. The evidence was flimsy,
but in this retelling of the Dreyfus affair story, Officer
Picard doesn't give up risking his own life to reveal
the real spy and free and innocent man Alfred Dreyfus,
who was wrongfully convicted. The French government tried to suppress
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the new evidence, prompting a Milizola to write the famous
open letter Jacqueses. An Officer and a Spy, winner of
the Walter Scott Prize in twenty fourteen, is a compelling
historical novel. And that's the book Club WBZ, Boston's news
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