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en-wikipedia-org-9924		The Riddle of the Sands - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3768	278	69	Childers's biographer Andrew Boyle noted: "For the next ten years Childers's book remained the most powerful contribution of any English writer to the debate on Britain's alleged military unpreparedness."[2] It was a notable influence on John Buchan, and on Ken Follett, who described it as "an open-air adventure thriller about two young men who stumble upon a German armada preparing to invade England."[3][4] Follett has also called it "the first modern thriller".[3] Just nine years before The Riddle of the Sands, William Le Queux published The Great War in England, raising the specter of a French surprise invasion of England, reaching London with Germany cast as Britain's loyal ally, rushing to help and in the nick of time saving England from the evil French; as evident from the great success of this book when published in 1894, the British public at that time took seriously the idea of a French threat and a German ally.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9924.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9924.txt