[Gutenberg 2360] • The Riddle of the Sands
- Authors
- Childers, Erskine
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Tags
- mystery , secret service -- fiction , adventure , thriller , classics , sea stories , spy stories , alternative histories (fiction) , frisian islands -- fiction , great britain -- history -- invasions -- fiction , sailing -- fiction , adventure stories
- ISBN
- 9780812966145
- Date
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.53 MB
- Lang
- en
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.