"One of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the US today." David Foster WallaceOne of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark case involving treason and anti-Semitism. Here is a novel about tangential players far from the trial's main stage: petty forgers, cross-dressers, actors in early silent films that document the trial, and a film restorer who's trying to save those crumbling movies nearly a hundred years later, all of them caught in a web of intrigue, menace, and betrayal that reaches through space and time.