<p>While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England.</P><P>Widely recognized as the first modern spy thriller this lone masterpiece by World War I Royal Navy officer Erskine Childers was written in <span>1903 </span>as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea defenses. It accomplished that task and has been considered a classic of espionage literature ever since. </P><P>Praised for its nautical action and richly authentic background as much as for its suspenseful spycraft <em>The Riddle of the Sands</em> is the brilliant forerunner to the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carré.</p></P><P>A Blackstone Audio production.</P>