The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

The Riddle of the Sands — Carruthers accepts his friend Davies’s invitation to sail in the Baltic, then learns that Davies’s recent near-wreck was no accident. Among the tidal channels and shifting sands of the German coast, the two friends follow clues toward a secret military scheme. Erskine Childers’s early spy novel combines exact sailing detail, friendship, and geopolitical suspense.