"""The first modern thriller.""""-Ken FollettThe Riddle of the Sands follows Charles Carruthers, a minor official in the British foreign office, and his friend from his Oxford days, Arthur Davies, as a sailing holiday quickly takes a dangerous turn. Sailing the Frisian Islands, the two unravel a plot by the Germans to invade England. Sharply prescient, this 1903 novel accurately predicted the threat posed by Germany in WWII, which would not materialize until years after Childers' death. The novel remains a classic in its artfulness and attentiveness to the craft of sailing as well as its part in the formation of the thriller as a literary genre. | The Riddle Of The Sands by Erskine Childers, Paperback | Indigo Chapters