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The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay #1)

John Buchan

Paperback | Pages: 100 pages

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Title	:	The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay #1)
Author	:	John Buchan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 100 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2004 by William Blackwood & Sons (first published 1915)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Mystery. Thriller. Adventure. Crime. Spy Thriller. Espionage

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Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life-until he is accosted by a mysterious American, who warns him of an assassination plot that could completely destabalise the fragile political balance of Europe. Initially sceptical, Hannay nonetheless harbours the man-but one dayreturns home to find him murdered... An obvious suspect, Hannay flees to his native Scotland, pursued by both the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. His life and the security of Britan are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the 'thirty nine steps?'
First published 1915

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Original Title:	The Thirty-Nine Steps
ISBN:	1419151126 (ISBN13: 9781419151125)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Richard Hannay #1
Characters:	Richard Hannay, Walter Bullivant
Setting:	Scotland London, England(United Kingdom)

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How can a classic be so bad? Melodramatic, as expected, but Buchan piles improbability upon improbability insulting your intelligence until by the end you just want to slap him. This is an important book in that it sprung many imitators, and some claim it is the start of the spy genre. It has been filmed three times, adapted for radio and television, inspired the chase film genre, and certainly it gave Alfred Hitchcock his basic subject. Buchan was a political man, and he uses the book for a

"The Thirty-Nine Steps" is a classic "innocent man on the run" adventure. Richard Hanney is housing his neighbor who is being followed by an anarchist gang called Black Stone. It's 1914 and the German gang is trying to steal British military plans. When Hanney returns to his flat, he finds the neighbor with a knife in his chest.Hanney feels that he will be arrested for the murder so he takes off to Scotland. He's being hunted down by both the police and the Black Stone gang. Hanney can talk his

The classic (and I believe first) "a secret society is after me and no one will believe me" story line - reminded me of a kind of proto-James Bond novel.

Just an old-fashioned spy thriller filled with adventure and mayhem. While sometimes ridiculous to a fault with the numerous disguises, I found it very entertaining in a James Bond sort of way. A short fast read with a unique ending. Now I really must see the Alfred Hitchcock version of the movie!

I get that this was an "old school" audio, but it still needs to be clearly audible for anyone to enjoy it and this was not. I'm bummed.

This started out okay, but soon developed into a nonsense yarn with an unlikeable man playing hide and seek in some muddy fields, encountering one ludicrous situational coincidence after another.Thankfully it was a short book, though it still managed to drag at times.I get this may be an important book in that it started a new genre, but it hasn't aged well. Don't bother with the read - watch the films instead - any of them.

This is a novel the literary importance of which I have no trouble appreciating. First published in 1915, it's the ancestor of the espionage thriller genre featuring the rugged-man-of-action-on-the-run style of hero. I would probably have enjoyed it more if I was a regular reader of that genre. I'm not and consequently I was distinctly underwhelmed. What I didn't like about the work first. For me, the main problem is that the plot pushes the concept of implausibility to its extreme limits. I'm