Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Classics) [2007] mass_market LBIOG 'A glorious

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and forbidden to practise as a surgeon

These eleven twisted tales of the macabre from the bestselling author of The Chalk Man are your perfect companions as the nights draw in

as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris

Yet while no longer taboo

Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Penguin Classics) [2007] mass_market LBIOG 'A gloriousChilders' lone masterpiece, "The Riddle of the Sands", considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization, richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivid evocation of the late 1890s an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and intrigue that was soon to lead to war.