Robert Erskine Childers
The Riddle of the Sands
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Feb. 15, 2017)
The Riddle of the Sands 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.
- ISBN
- 1543076637 / 9781543076639
- Pages
- 290
- Weight
- 17.76 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.66
in.