The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service - Softcover

Childers, Erskine

 
9780140009057: The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service

Synopsis

The letter bore a German postmark and was marked "urgent". To Carruthers, a golden boy at the foreign office, the prospect of sailing in the Baltic scarcely appealed. None the less he decides to go.

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Review

" This is a book of great renown. . . . Its beautifully sustained atmosphere . . . adds poetry, and . . . real mystery." -- Ian Fleming

This is a book of great renown. . . . Its beautifully sustained atmosphere . . . adds poetry, and . . . real mystery. Ian Fleming"

"This is a book of great renown. . . . Its beautifully sustained atmosphere . . . adds poetry, and . . . real mystery." --Ian Fleming

About the Author

Milt Bearden was chief of the CIA's Soviet/East European division at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. He received the Donovan Award and the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA's highest honor, and is the author of The Black Tulip (available from Random House Trade Paperbacks) and co-author of The Main Enemy (published in 2003 by Random House).

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