![]() ![]() ![]() Even as the standard sailing season comes to a close, and the cold of October approaches, Carruthers agrees to join Davies for a bit of sailing and duck hunting on the Frisian Coast of the North Sea. ![]() Our heroes here are former Oxford pals Charles Carruthers, a minor official in the British Foreign Office, and Arthur Davies, an yachtsman who doesn't appear to have any formal profession apart from exploring obscure coasts and sandbanks, with a penchant for chucking his belongings overboard and running aground on purpose. The Riddle of the Sands set the mold for the contemporary spy novel. 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 Childerss death. About the Book Described by bestselling novelist Ken Follett as the first modern thriller, The 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. ![]()
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