The Shadow in the Sands
Being an account of the cruise of the yacht GLORIA in the Frisian Islands in the April of 1903, and the conclusion of events described by Erskine Childers in his narrative The Riddle of the SandsBy Sam Llewellyn
288 pp. 3 maps. October 1999. Paperback. $14.95
ISBN 1 57409 089 5
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The Shadow in the Sands continues the celebrated story of maritime intrigue, treachery, and adventure begun in Erskine Childers' timeless thriller The Riddle of the Sands.
The year is 1903. Working class hero Charlie Webb, a young racing skipper with a reputation for winning at all costs, accepts an invitation from the Duke of Leominster to attend a secret meeting in London. There he meets a mysterious yachtsman named Carruthers, who offers to pay him one thousand pounds to guide the smack yacht GLORIA through the treacherous tides and shifting sandbanks of the Frisian Islands in search of a sunken Napoleonic wreck loaded with lost bullion.
The cocksure Webb accepts the peculiar proposition, paving the way for the violence, treachery, and pain that await him amidst the waves...
“For excitement, elegance, and sheer virtuosity, Llewellyn's thrillers sail rings around the competition.” —Literary Review
“Only Sam Llewellyn, as ‘the Dick Francis of yachting,’ could have pulled off this homage to one of the great mystery novels of all time.” —Books Magazine
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About the Author:
Sam Llewellyn is the author of some 20 novels, most of them related to boats and the sea, including Dead Reckoning, Blood Orange, Riptide, and Clawhammer. He has spent much of his life in, on, or under the water, and has owned a "distressing number of sailboats" in waters ranging from the Baltic to Puget Sound to the Far East to the Great Lakes.
- See also Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers