Described by bestselling novelist Ken Follett as the first modern thriller, The Riddle of the Sands follows Charles Carruthers, a minor official in the British foreign office, and his friend from his Oxford days, Arthur Davies, as a sailing holiday quickly takes a dangerous turn. Sailing the Frisian Islands, the two unravel a plot by the Germans to invade England sharply prescient, this 1903 novel accurately predicted the threat posed by Germany in WWII, which would not materialize until years after Childerss death.
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Described by bestselling novelist Ken Follett as the first modern thriller, The Riddle of the Sands follows Charles Carruthers, a minor official in the British foreign office, and his friend from his Oxford days, Arthur Davies, as a sailing holiday quickly takes a dangerous turn. Sailing the Frisian Islands, the two unravel a plot by the Germans to invade England sharply prescient, this 1903 novel accurately predicted the threat posed by Germany in WWII, which would not materialize until years after Childerss death.
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