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Download or read book The Riddle of the Sands written by Erskine Childers and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium', James Bond and dystopian dramas like 'The Man in the High Castle'? The 1903 spy thriller 'The Riddle of the Sands' has elements of all three - and then some. Ken Follett, author of 'The Pillars of the Earth', called 'The Riddle of the Sands' the "first modern thriller". It centres on a suspected plot by the German Empire to invade Britain. The plot proved to be almost prophetic, bearing in mind what was to follow in the First World War and the Second World War in the coming decades. Minor civil servant Carruthers and his friend, Davies are the men investigating the plot while on a yachting holiday in the Baltic Sea. They are drawn into an intricate story that includes secret treasure, a British traitor and a race against time to save Britain from the grip of the Kaiser. In 1979 'The Riddle of the Sands' was made into a spy thriller movie, starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Simon MacCorkindale. Childers' technique of including a great deal of detail that could be verified was later used by authors including: John Buchan, who wrote 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'; 'James Bond' author Ian Fleming and John Le Carré. Erskine Childers (1870-1922) was an Anglo-Irish writer whose only true literary success came with 'The Riddle of the Sands'. Instead, he found infamy through his political activism. Having been a prospective Liberal parliamentary candidate, he left the party and took up the cause of Irish Republicanism. He smuggled guns into Ireland on his yacht, but was executed during the Irish Civil War. His son, Erskine Hamilton Childers, became the 4th president of Ireland.
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Download or read book The Riddle Of The Sands A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved written by Childers Erskine and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Riddle of the Sands" by using Erskine Childers is a classic espionage novel that unfolds in opposition to the backdrop of early twentieth-century Europe. The story follows Carruthers, a central authority professional in London, who is invited by using his pal Davies for a crusing experience along the German North Sea coast. Initially waiting for a leisurely tour, Carruthers quickly will become embroiled in a surprising internet of espionage and intrigue. As they sail thru the Frisian Islands, Carruthers and Davies uncover mysterious occurrences and suspect Germany might be making plans an invasion of Britain. The two beginner sleuths discover themselves entangled in a dangerous sport related to hidden channels, sandbanks, and German conflict arrangements. Their pursuit to resolve the "riddle of the sands" will become an interesting adventure fraught with peril and secrecy. Childers' novel is seemed as one of the earliest examples of the espionage genre. It cleverly combines elements of adventure, espionage, and the growing tensions among Britain and Germany within the years main up to World War I. The book's shiny descriptions of the coastal landscape and the palpable experience of mystery create some surroundings of suspense and intrigue. "The Riddle of the Sands" stands as a sizable work within the undercover agent fiction style, fascinating readers with its suspenseful narrative and contributing to the improvement of espionage literature.
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Download or read book The Riddle of the Sands written by Erskine Childers and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a patriotic British 1903 novel by Erskine Childers.It is a novel that "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that "established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story - the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and many others." Ken Follett called it "the first modern thriller."
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