The riddle of the sands
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Andrews UK : Made available through hoopla, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781781667293 (electronic bk.) MWT11471368, 1781667292 (electronic bk.) 11471368
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
One of the earliest spy thriller novels, The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service was written in 1903 by Irish author Robert Erskine Childers. Charles Carruthers, a minor British Foreign Office official, is recruited by an acquaintance to a top secret mission to foil a German invasion plan. The book was somewhat prescient, being published a decade before the outbreak of the First World War
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