{"product_id":"2940012636881","title":"The Riddle Of The Sands's Collection [ By: Erskine Childers ]","description":"This article is about the 1903 adventure novel. For the 1984 Jimmy Buffett album, see Riddles in the Sand.\u003cbr\u003eThe Riddle of the Sands\u003cbr\u003eRiddleOfTheSands.JPG\u003cbr\u003e1st edition\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Robert Erskine Childers\u003cbr\u003eLanguage English\u003cbr\u003eGenre(s) Invasion novel,\u003cbr\u003eAdventure novel,\u003cbr\u003eSpy novel\u003cbr\u003ePublisher Smith, Elder \u0026amp; Co\u003cbr\u003ePublication date 1903\u003cbr\u003eMedia type Print (Hardback \u0026amp; Paperback)\u003cbr\u003eOCLC Number 3569143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. It is an early example of the espionage novel, with a strong underlying theme of militarism. It has been made into a film and TV film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a novel that \"owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain\"; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that \"established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story – the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and many others.\" Ken Follett called it \"the first modern thriller.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I and was extremely influential. As Childers's biographer Andrew Boyle noted: \"For the next ten years Childers's book remained the most powerful contribution of any English writer to the debate on Britain's alleged military unpreparedness\". It was a notable influence on John Buchan and Ken Follett, who described it as \"an open-air adventure thriller about two young men who stumble upon a German armada preparing to invade England.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1998, nautical writer Sam Llewellyn wrote a continuation of the story named The Shadow in the Sands. This is subtitled \"being an account of the cruise of the yacht Gloria in the Frisian Islands in April of 1903 and the Conclusion of the Events described by Erskine Children\".","brand":"Publish This, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069425729776,"sku":"2940012636881","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012636881_p0.jpg?v=1763570863","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012636881","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}