John Buchan est né en 1875 en Écosse. Après des études de droit à Oxford, il mène de front carrière politique et écriture. Il est successivement directeur de l’information dans le cabinet de Lloyd George pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, puis gouverneur général du Canada en 1935. Tour à tour romancier, journaliste, biographe, historien, il a laissé derrière lui une 1⁄2uvre imposante. Ce sont ses romans d’aventure qui l’ont rendu célèbre. Il crée le personnage de Richard Hannay, le héros des Trente-Neuf marches, modèle de l’espion moderne.
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The Richard Hannay Adventures - Selected as one of the 100 best novels in English in the Guardian
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Selected as one of the 100 best novels in English in The Guardian
Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered in Hannay's London flat, he becomes the obvious suspect and is forced to go on the run. He heads north to his native Scotland, fleeing the police and his enemies. Hannay must keep his wits about him if he is to warn the government before all is too late.
This classic spy thriller sold a million copies before Buchan died in 1940, has been adapted countless times for film, television and the stage, and features the most exciting chase in the history of fiction.
With an introduction by Stuart Kelly.
This edition is authorised by the John Buchan Society.
Título : The Thirty-Nine Steps
EAN : 9780857901699
Editorial : Polygon
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