Maggie Anton’s Reviews > An Officer and a Spy > Status Update

Nothing like being stuck at home with Covid-19 to catch up on my reading. At last things are going in our heroes' direction. Picquart is released from gaol and Dreyfus from Devil's Island. The evidence against them is increasingly being disproved. I will undoubtedly finish this novel over Shabbat.

Nothing like being isolated at home with Covid to get a lot of reading done. Our protagonist Picquart, who is determined to find proof that will expose the real spy and exonerate Dreyfus, has been banished to Africa to prevent him from uncovering more evidence of the Army's incompetence and prejudice.

Not that I didn't know how the Dreyfus affair ends, but now our protagonist Picquart believes Dreyfus is not guilty. Unfortunately, the army doesn't want to do anything with the new evidence, even though it means the real spy will get away with his crimes, because it will make the army look bad.

I've just started this novel and already I don't want to put it down. The the first-person present-tense writing is excellent; I feel like I'm back in early 1900's Paris as the author is telling me his story.