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The Thirty-nine Steps Book
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Foyles
Perhaps more than any other book The Thirty-Nine Steps has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan, only a very few, like Graham Greene, have managed to sustain the tension in the same way. The main character is Buchan's familiar hero, Richard Hannay who gets caught up quite suddenly on a dull London afternoon in a situation of extreme danger. Before he knows what is happening he is the obvious suspect for a murder committed in his own flat, and has to go on the run to his native Scotland.
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Blackwell
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic...
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Penguin
With The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan set the pace for thriller-writers to come.
- 0140011307
- 9780140011302
- John Buchan
- 3 January 1991
- Penguin
- Paperback (Book)
- 128
- New Impression
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