The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved

Widely heralded as the blueprint for the modern espionage thriller, The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers is a gripping, highly atmospheric masterpiece of political suspense. The narrative unfolds through the eyes of Carruthers, a bored British Foreign Office minor official, who joins his eccentric, fiercely independent acquaintance, Davies, on a yachting holiday aboard the modest Dulcibella. What begins as a leisurely sailing voyage quickly transforms into a perilous investigative mi...