Title: The riddle of the sands: A record of secret service recently achieved
Publisher: D. McKay Co
Publication Date: 1977
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0679507728
ISBN 13: 9780679507727
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television.The novel "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain". It was a spy novel that "established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story � the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le CarrŽ and many others. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riddle_of_the_Sands Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book.

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While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Written by Childers--who served in the Royal Navy during World War I--as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea defenses, "The Riddle of the Sands accomplished that task and has been considered a classic of espionage literature ever since, praised as much for its nautical action as for its suspenseful spycraft.

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