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The Riddle of the Sands

✍ Scribed by Erskine Childers

Publisher: Atlantic Books; Grove Atlantic Ltd
Year: 1903
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 424 KB
Edition: Atlantic Books (2011)
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1843549085

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Paperback, 339 pages
Published: 1903
Edition: Atlantic Books (2011)
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Afterword/Case Notes by: Robert Giddings (2009)
The perennial classic and one of the first great spy novels, "The Riddle of the Sands" is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War.
Bored with his life in London, a young man accepts an invitation to join a friend on a sailing holiday in the Baltic (Frisian Isles). While on a duck-hunting, Carruthers and his friend Davies become suspicious of German naval activity off the North Sea Coast. The pair decide to investigate, and are soon embroiled in a world of suspense and intrigue, and the pair set about foiling nothing less than a plot to invade England.
Initially published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands proved a prescient vision of the Anglo-German conflict that was to culminate in the First World War. This thrilling adventure is now regarded as the first - and one of the best - spy novels ever written, inspiring later masters of the genre from John Buchan to John le Carre.
'The best story of adventure published in the last quarter of a century' John Buchan

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