Robert Harris takes on the Dreyfus Affair
An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris, Hutchinson, RRP£18.99, 483 pages
“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 it before, the likes of Edward Snowden and Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning have rung the alarm. This is the 21st century, after all.
Or is it?