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Title: Sea, Spies and Excellent Writing, What More Could You Want?
Review: This has been on my wish-to-read list for a long time and at last I have fulfilled the wish.The book has rightly been listed among the 100 greatest novels of all time. Claims have also been made for it as the first spy novel, although this is challenged by fans of Rudyard Kipling, who of course wrote Kim two years earlier than Riddle.It has also been credited with being so influential that it woke up the Admiralty to the possibility of invasion of Britain by Germany across the North Sea, with consequent opening of several naval bases on the East coast.I enjoyed it very much, especially as it encompassed two of my reading interests - sailing and espionage. I was sad when it finished, not because of the ending, but because there was no more. The writing is excellent.
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