Reading The Riddle of the Sands | Alexandria
Read The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. Blending espionage with existential dread, The Riddle of the Sands exposes how perceived national security can mask deeper human insecurities. Childers' prescient 1903 thriller reveals that preparing for imagined threats often creates real ones - a paradox that haunts our surveillance society today. His core insight? The deadliest enemy may be our own paranoid imagination.