The Complete Richard Hannay
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1993-02-25
Total Pages: 1305
ISBN-13: 0140170596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains: Island of Sheep, Three Hostages, Mr Hostages, Mr Standfast, The 39 Steps.
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The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13: 9780879238711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Buchan is the father of the modern spy thriller. This is so even though the Hannay books are not, strictly speaking, about spies at all in the professional sense of the word. They are about penetration of the enemy, about lonely escape and wild journeys, about the thin veneer that stands between civilsation and barbarism.
The Three Hostages
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2023-04-25T19:54:10Z
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in 1924, The Three Hostages is the fourth of John Buchan’s novels to feature Richard Hannay. Following the conclusion of the Great War, Hannay has retired from British intelligence. He is coaxed from retirement to aid in the rescue of three prominent hostages held by an international criminal organization bent on controlling the disturbed minds of those affected by the Great War. Hannay pretends to succumb to hypnotic mind control and secretly travels to a remote farm in Norway to continue the hostage search. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Author: John Buchan
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-16
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Famous as the basis for several films, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic of early twentieth-century popular literature. Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot that could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.
The Island of Sheep
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2015-04-24
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1473373557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A classic Richard Hannay adventure novel by John Buchan. Richard Hannay is now in his fifties but once more must throw himself into an adventure to uphold a an oath he made in his youth to protect the son of a man he once knew, the son being an heir to the secret of a great treasure.
Mr. Standfast
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: LA CASE Books
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Mr Standfast” is a spy novel featuring Richard Hannay, written by John Buchan and published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton. Richard Hannay is recalled from the Western Front by his good friend Bullivant in order to be assigned a new mission. As always, the whole action revolves around identifying a master German spy who operates in Britain along with his agents. In order to find him out, he must adopt a disguise he truly dislikes, the one of a pacifist. He then travels to the Cotswolds as Cornelius Brand, a South African war objector, in order to penetrate a group of war-hating intellectuals. He falls in love with a young woman called Mary who is also part of the group. John Buchan is the inventor of the modern British spy novel.
Ultimate Richard Hannay Collection
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 1542
ISBN-13: 1443425346
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This special collection gathers together author John Buchan’s five novels featuring the indomitable secret agent, Richard Hannay. In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay is hoping to start a new life in London even as the world is on the cusp of war in 1914, but he is soon pulled into a startling series of events when an informant tells him about an assassination plot and plans to steal Britain’s military strategies. Hannay’s adventures continue in Buchan’s four follow up novels, Greenmantle, Mr. Standfast, The Three Hostages, and The Island of Sheep. The adventures of Richard Hannay are regarded as the starting point for espionage fiction and established author John Buchan as the original thriller writer. Buchan’s stories inspired many others novelists and filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock who directed the first of four film adaptations of The Thirty Nine Steps. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
The Thirty-One Kings
Author: Robert J Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1681779196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →June, 1940. Richard Hannay has returned.As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into duty. In Paris, an individual code named “Roland” has disappeared and is assumed to be in the hands of Nazi agents. Only Roland knows the secret of the 31 Kings, a secret upon which the future of Europe depends. Hannay is dispatched to Paris to find Roland before the Germans overrun the city. On a hazardous journey across the battlefields of France, Hannay is joined by old friends and new allies as he confronts a ruthless foe who will stop at nothing to destroy him.
Mr. Standfast
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, [1919]?.
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Greenmantle
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum.
