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Overview
The novel "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain". It was a spy novel that "established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story - the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carr and many others." Carruthers, a minor official in the Foreign Office, is contacted by an acquaintance, Davies, asking him to join in a yachting holiday in the Baltic Sea. Carruthers agrees, as his other plans for a holiday have fallen through.
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- ISBN-13: 9781979340618
- ISBN-10: 1979340617
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: November 2017
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.62 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.87 pounds
- Page Count: 294
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