120 pages
English language
Published Aug. 9, 1943 by Houghton Mifflin.
120 pages
English language
Published Aug. 9, 1943 by Houghton Mifflin.
Buchan introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an "ordinary fellow", is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his intelligent and pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whitehall and, finally, at the site of the mysterious thirty-nine steps.