The Riddle Of The Sands
Summary
Ernest Childers's gripping espionage thriller is set in the eerie seas and sands off the north coast of Germany. Languishing one summer at the Foreign Office in London, Carruthers is rescued by an unexpected invitation to join Arthur Davies on the DULCIBELLA in the Baltic. A grouse-shooting party or a weekend at Cowes would have been more Carruthers's style. More disconcerting still, soon after his arrival it emerges that Davies needs his assistance, not on a yachting holiday, but in a spot of amateur spying... Sounding a warning of the dangers of a German sea-borne invasion, THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS caused a sensation when it appeared in 1903 and was the great forerunner of the espionage novels of Graham Greene and John Le Carre.
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