Erskine Childers

While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England....

The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Irish author Erskine Childers is often described as the first modern thirller and was one of the first popular spy novels....

Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and is a classic of spy fiction....

Carruthers is rescued from a hot summer at a deserted Foreign Office in London, by an out-of-the-blue invitation to join an acquaintance, Davies, on his yacht in the Baltic...

L'autore inglese di questo romanzo (1870-1922) fu un ufficiale della marina britannica e, in seguito, un rivoluzionario irlandese. Questa sua opera fu il...

"It seems pretty clear to me that sooner or later we’ll be at war with Germany, whether we like it or not."....