One of the earliest spy thriller novels, The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service was written in 1903 by Irish author Robert Erskine Childers. Charles Carruthers, a minor British Foreign Office official, is recruited by an acquaintance to...
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One of the earliest spy thriller novels, The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service was written in 1903 by Irish author Robert Erskine Childers. Charles Carruthers, a minor British Foreign Office official, is recruited by an acquaintance to a top secret mission to foil a German invasion plan. The book was somewhat prescient, being published a decade before the outbreak of the First World War While on a boating trip, a foppish Foreign Office official and his friend uncover German plans for an invasion of England. Originally published to draw attention to pre-World War I German militarism, this book is the first spy thriller to be considered literature, and led to the reorganization of British Naval Intelligence
