Harris has done meticulous research to tell the story of the Dreyfus affair from the point of view of Georges Picquart, the French intelligence chief who risked his career to expose the French army's miscarriage of justice. I don't know enough about the Dreyfus story to gauge how well Harris has presented the facts of the case, but he has certainly amassed an amazing amount of detail to lend coherence to what must certainly have been a confusing series of events. Picquart is an interesting character, motivated by no particular affection for Dreyfus but by a (slightly weird) love of the army and a desire to see it behave honorably. Very procedural, occasionally a little dry, but a fascinating study in power and the way it makes different people behave.
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