Childers, Robert Erskine
The Riddle of the Sands
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.
Keywords: fiction, spy, spies, espionage, thriller, novel, novels, classic, adventure, top secret
- Author(s)
- Childers, Robert Erskine
- Publisher
- Andrews UK
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 314 pages
- Categories
- Thriller
- Novels
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781781667293