“Take a step or two forward, lads – it’ll be easier that way.”
Erskine Childers, author of The Riddle of the Sands, before he was executed by a firing squad of the Irish Free State in 1922. Penguin Classics added the classic work of espionage fiction to its list last year.
Childers is quoted in this article in The Guardian about thriller writers whose biographies intersect with their fiction (also featuring John Le Carré, another Penguin Classics author & spy).
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