The Riddle of the Sands

One of the first great spy novels, THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. Bored with his life in London, a young man accepts an invitation to join a friend on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. The story builds in excitement as these two young adventurers discover a German plot to invade England.

• Author
• Peter Hawkins, Erskine Childers

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 104

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780194792318

• Release date
• 2008