A New York Times Bestselling Author Paris, 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil''s Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd. Among them is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that "proved" Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. But not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his prison, Picquart stumbles on disturbing information.