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

Childers, Erskine

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574090151 ISBN 13: 9781574090154

Publisher: 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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" 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:

Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, was the author of the influential novel Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist, who was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.

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