Riddle of the Sands

`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.'' Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure th...