The Escape of Alfred Dreyfus: A Novel - Softcover

Macauley, Robie; Macauley, Cameron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1522875867 ISBN 13: 9781522875864

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Unjustly convicted of treason, Alfred Dreyfus has spent five years in solitary confinement on Devil’s Island in the Caribbean. He is weak from starvation and hopelessness. In Paris, his friends have secretly conspired to help him escape. They hire three unlikely adventurers to engineer one the most daring prison breaks in history: Dynamite Johnny O’Brien, smuggler and explosives expert; William Astor Chanler, millionaire, soldier, and US Congressman; and internationally-acclaimed actress Judith Rougemont. But Caliban, an agent of the French Secret Service, has found out about the plot and will do everything possible to prevent it.

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About the Author

Robie Macauley’s career spanned 50 years during which he published fiction, The Disguises of Love (1952), The End of pity and Other Stories (1957), A Secret History of Time to Come (1979) and a popular textbook on writing (Technique in Fiction, 1966), plus over a hundred short stories. During the final years of his career he was a Senior Editor at Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company. The Escape of Alfred Dreyfus is his second posthumously-published novel, after Citadel of Ice (2014). Cameron Macauley has worked in humanitarian aid and international development since 1984. He teaches at James Madison University.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1522875867
• ISBN 13: 9781522875864
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242