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The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers
First Published
1995
Subjects
Great britain, fiction
Fiction, action & adventure
Fiction, thrillers, espionage
Fiction, alternative history
Fiction, sea stories
Large type books
Fiction
Invasions
History
Secret service
Sailing
British
Classic Literature
Thriller
Mystery
Fiction, espionage
General
Invasions of Great Britain
English Spy stories
Secret service -- Fiction
Sailing -- Fiction
Spy fiction
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Adventure fiction
Sea stories
Great Britain -- History -- Invasions -- Fiction
Frisian Islands -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History
Europe -- Frisian Islands
Great Britain
Readers
English language, juvenile literature
Description
Childers's lone masterpiece, THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization,richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivid evocation of the late 1890s - an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and intrigue that was soon to lead to war.