Thirty - Nine Steps

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In this 1915 story--possibly the first modern spy novel--Buchan's perennial protagonist, Richard Hannay, averts the assassination of a world leader. Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilize Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns later to find that another man has been found shot dead in the same building, apparently a suicide. Four days later Hannay finds the American stabbed to death...

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  • User image   Charles Hirst
    Over and over...
    11 Dec 2020
    Read the book years ago and lost my copy in an inter-continent move. Saw the (various) movies - and the BBC series Hannay - did lights for the play. It's great to have it in ePub format.
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  • User image   Nick Waldon
    Loved "39 Steps."
    10 Dec 2020
    Heard it as a radio play, saw the Movie now I've read the book & it still enthralls me.
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  • User image   Dianne
    Thirty - Nine Steps
    22 Nov 2020
    I agree with both Allen Bain, and Stephanie Peterkin. It was a real page turner.
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  • User image   Stephanie Peterkin
    22 May 2012
    It lived up to my expectation. I couldn't stop reading when I started.
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    22 Mar 2011
    Superb spy story written in the pre-first world war period.
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  • User image   heather dawson heather148@hotm
    05 Apr 2010
    a real page turner lots of believable characters, historical significance and action, action and more action
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