The Riddle of the Sands: Erskine Childers (Macmillan Collector's Library, 137) - Hardcover

Childers, Erskine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509843159 ISBN 13: 9781509843152

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2017

Synopsis

One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long, suspicious years leading up to the First World War. In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the boredom of his life in London. He accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, a shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic, and there, amidst the sunshine and bright blue seas, they discover a German plot to invade England . . .

Like much contemporary British spy fiction, The Riddle of the Sands reflects the Anglo-German rivalry of the early twentieth century, and the intricacy of the book’s conception and its lucid detail make it a classic of its genre.

This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands features maps drawn from Childers’ originals and an afterword by writer and journalist Ned Halley.

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About this title

Review:

"The best story of adventure published in the last quarter of a century." --John Buchan, author, "The Thirty-Nine Steps"

"A thriller anticipating Frederick Forsyth and Len Deighton . . . never loses pace." --"Independent on Sunday"

Book Description:

Erskine Childers' gripping spy classic in a beautiful collector's edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509843159
• ISBN 13: 9781509843152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400