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The Riddle Of the Sands:a Record Of Secret Service
[Paperback - 2011]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Mystery
Additional Category: Action & Adventure - Thrillers
Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780143106326 | Pages: 336
Shipping Weight: .272 | Dimensions: 5.16 x .72 x 7.75 inches

Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth century, when Britain shared a tense rivalry with the Kaiser's Germany. Tempted by the idea of duck shooting, Carruthers is lured by his friend Davies into a yachting expedition in the Baltic, only to discover that the itinerary involves more than killing fowl. Soon they're on a wild journey of intrigue, meeting danger at every turn, and ultimately unraveling Germany's secret plans to invade England. Tautly written and full of unexpected twists, this is a timeless work of espionage fiction.

Robert Erskine Childers DSC, universally known as Erskine Childers, was the author of the influential novelThe Riddle of the Sandsand an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War in 1922. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.Childers was a Boer War veteran and was called back to active duty at the start of World War One.

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