I picked up this purely at random one lunchtime when I was feeling the need to read. Well it was only a pound in HMV since it’s the Penguin Popular Classics edition.
This is a book that for years I feel I should have read. We always used to keep a copy in Sheringham and despite the action taking place in the main along the northern coast of Germany, the sands rang true in North Norfolk.
It’s a turn of the century (the last century) spy thriller, albeit at quite a sedate pace. But the way the book’s put together easily sends out signals of the true fears people must have suffered at the time. I think it’s safe to say that the onset of the First World War would not have surprised Erskin Childers.