"""The first real thriller." --Ken Follett"" While on a duck-hunting
holiday sailing in the Frisian Isles, Carruthers and his friend Davies
become suspicious of German naval activity off the North Sea Coast. The
pair decide to investigate, are soon embroiled in a world of suspense
and intrigue, and set about foiling nothing less than a plot to invade
England. Initially published in 1903, this thriller proved a prescient
vision of the Anglo-German conflict that was to culminate in World War
I. This adventure is now regarded as the first--and one of the best--spy
novels ever written, inspiring such later masters of the genre as John
Buchan, Ian Fleming, and John le Carre.