In this episode, I talk about Erskine Childers' classic novel The Riddle of the Sands. I start off with a recap of my visit to an antiquarian book fair where I encountered the nexus of Soviet propaganda and capitalism. Then I move onto the book itself, where a friendly sail around Germany's northern coast turns into an international caper. Invasion scare literature? You betcha. And then's there's Erskine, who went before the firing squad for his Irish nationalist beliefs. Give it a listen, and mind the sandbars.