Richard Hannay is having a thoroughly dull London afternoon when the world suddenly turns dangerous. Within moments he finds himself the prime suspect for a murder committed in his own flat — and his only option is to run, heading north to the Scottish landscape of his childhood. John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps has done more than almost any other novel to shape the thriller as we know it, establishing the template for the relentless, breathless chase that writers from Graham Greene onwards have tried to match. Few have managed it with quite the same grip. Hannay is Buchan’s most enduring hero: resourceful, instinctive, and perpetually one step ahead of enemies he barely understands — a man propelled from comfortable obscurity into extreme peril before he has had a chance to think twice.
ISBN 13: 9780140011302
Author: John Buchan
