- Fiction, Great Britain, Intelligence service, Richard Hannay (Fictitious character)
Major General Sir Richard Hannay thought that his life of adventure and danger was behind him with the end of the Great War. He was wrong. When an old colleague comes asking for help, Hannay has to come out of retirement to battle a secret society that has kidnapped three innocents to advance their schemes.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Buchan
- First published
- 1924
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- House of Stratus, HarperCollins Publishers, White Press
- Editions
- 204
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781070897103
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A Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan>Wikipedia</a>).
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