Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Compelling Reading -- Helen Lowe Recommends Robert Harris's "An Officer and A Spy"


Speculative fiction author Helen Lowe, also loves historical fiction and has just finished reading Robert Harris's "An Officer and A Spy", which she thoroughly recommends. Here's a taste of what she has to say:

"..I’ve finished and am happy to say that’s it’s a top-notch read from “go” to “whoa.”  To recap, the book is a fictionalised account of true events, the so-called Dreyfus Affair. The novel begins with the conviction of a French army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, for spying and follows the gradual realization by military intelligence officer, Georges Picquart, that Dreyfus has been wrongfully convicted. The novel covers the period from Dreyfus’s arrest in 1894 to 1906 when his name was finally cleared.

...In Robert Harris’ s hands...the story is deftly told, with excellent pacing between historical events, the convincing development of an array of historical characters, and the uncovering of the conspiracy that led to Dreyfus’s conviction. I definitely wanted to keep turning those pages, even late at night when I could barely keep my eyes open, and even missed out on a movie so I could finish the book!
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To find out more about what Lowe found such compelling reading, click on:

Recommended Reading: “An Officer And A Spy” by Robert Harris

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