The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service - Tapa dura

Childers, Erskine

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9781574090154: The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service

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ISBN 10: 1574090151 ISBN 13: 9781574090154

Editorial: Sheridan House Australia Pty Ltd, 1998

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Set before World War I, this enthralling novel pitches two amateur sailors against the secret forces of mighty Germany. Powers of deduction and navigational skills prove equally important in uncovering a plot which threatens personal as well as national security.

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The Riddle of the Sands: a Record of Secret Service is a classic early example of the espionage novel, with a strong underlying theme of militarism. It has been made into a Hollywood film and TV film.

As a novel it owes much to the adventure genre, and perhaps more significantly, 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 Carr� and many others. Ken Follett called it "the first modern thriller." The Observer, in a list published to coincide with the Big Read campaign in 2003, listed the book at number thirty-seven in "The 100 Greatest Novels" from the past 300 years.

"The first and best of spy stories"--The Times

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