The Riddle Of The Sand‪s‬

Robert Erskine Childers (1870 – 1922), ordinary known as Erskine Childers was the author of the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. 

«The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service» is the single but greate novel by Erskine Childers. The novel, which could enjoy the whole popularity in the years before devastating World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. Due to its magnificent and intrigue storyline has been frequently picturized.