Riddle of the Sands

The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a patriotic British 1903 novel by Erskine Childers.It is a novel that "e;owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"e;; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy nov [...]
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a patriotic British 1903 novel by Erskine Childers.It is a novel that "e;owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"e;; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that "e;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 Carre and many others."e; Ken Follett called it "e;the first modern thriller."e;