Erskine Childers

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

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...

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

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....

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...