Download or read book The Richard Hannay Collection Volume II The Three Hostages The Island of Sheep written by John Buchan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hannay is the most famous creation of author and diplomat John Buchan. Hannay can be seen to be the first true action hero of British literature, a decorated soldier and spy, constantly needed by the government to thwart plots against the empire. Here collected are the last two novels to have Richard Hannay as the lead protagonist.
Download or read book The Three Hostages written by John Buchan and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-04-25T19:54:10Z with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Island of Sheep written by John Buchan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Complete Richard Hannay written by John Buchan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1993-02-25 with total page 1305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains: Island of Sheep, Three Hostages, Mr Hostages, Mr Standfast, The 39 Steps.
Download or read book Mr Standfast written by John Buchan and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 1921 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Download or read book The Three Hostages written by John Buchan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.
Download or read book Sick Heart River written by John Buchan and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-12-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live and decides to devote his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker, who is searching for the 'River of the Sick Heart'. Braving an Arctic winter, Leithen finds the banker and then his own health returns, yet only one of the men will return to civilization ....
Download or read book The Complete Richard Hannay Stories written by John Buchan and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps. Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes. Caught up in the first of these five gripping adventures just before the outbreak of war in 1914, he manages to thwart the enemy's evil plan and solve the mystery of the “thirty-nine steps”. In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. Contains: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages, The Courts of the Morning and The Island of Sheep.
Download or read book The Thirty Nine Steps written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay written by John Buchan and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1988 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book RICHARD HANNAY Complete Collection 7 Mystery Espionage Books in One Volume Unabridged written by John Buchan and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “RICHARD HANNAY Complete Collection – 7 Mystery & Espionage Books in One Volume (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is a character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan. Hannay is based on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. The Thirty-Nine Steps - Hannay is buttonholed by an American stranger who knows of an anarchist plot to assassinate the Greek Premier during his forthcoming visit to London. It is now up to Hannay to save the day and stop Europe from destabilising. Greenmantle - Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion in winning the war. Mr Standfast - Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret undercover mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. The Three Hostages - Hannay receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people before it's too late... The Island of Sheep - Hannay, now in his fifties, is called by an old oath to protect the son of a man he once knew, who is also heir to the secret of a great treasure. The Courts of the Morning - Hannay is approached by the American military attache in London to covertly solve the mystery of Blenkiron's disappearance in South America. Hannay seeks out his friend Sandy Arbuthnot for help, but Sandy soon disappears, sending Hannay a mysterious letter . . . The Green Wildebeest - It is a mystery tale of a man afflicted with a terrible curse for doing something he shouldn't have John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. He is now best remembered for his adventure and spy thrillers, most notably The Thirty-Nine Steps.
Download or read book The Island Of Sheep written by John Buchan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in his fifties, Richard Hannay is called upon to fulfill an old promise. Haraldsen, an acquaintance from Hannay’s days as a British spy, is dying, and demands that Hannay protect his son, Valdemar, who is about to inherit the secret to a great treasure. But enemies from Hannay’s past, including the infamous D'Ingraville, want in on the prize and will stop at nothing to get their hands on Valdemar. With the help of his old allies and teenage son, Peter John, can Hannay keep Valdemar, and the secret treasure, safe? The Richard Hannay series, including The Thirty-Nine Steps, Mr. Standfast, The Three Hostages, and Greenmantle, established John Buchan as an original thriller writer and pioneer of espionage fiction. The Island of Sheep is the fifth and final book in the series. 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.
Download or read book The Richard Hannay Trilogy the Thirty Nine Steps Greenmantle Mr Standfast written by John Buchan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun. 'Richard Hannay, ' I kept telling myself, 'you have got into the wrong ditch, my friend, and you had better climb out.' It made me bite my lips to think of the plans I had been building up those last years in Bulawayo. I had got my pile-not one of the big ones, but good enough for me; and I had figured out all kinds of ways of enjoying myself. My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of Arabian Nights to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days.
Download or read book The Complete Richard Hannay Series written by John Buchan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of the Complete Richard Hannay Series has all of the following works: 1st Book: The Thirty-Nine Steps 2nd Book: Greenmantle 3rd Book: Mr. Standfast 4th Book: The Three Hostages 5th Book: The Island of Sheep
Download or read book The Three Hostages Annotated written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels by Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1924 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.Hannay had previously appeared in The Thirty Nine Steps 1915, his most famous adventure in which he battles German spies across England and Scotland, and two books about his activities during the First World War, Greenmantle 1916 and Mr Standfast 1919.
Download or read book Brasenose College written by John Buchan and published by London : F.E. Robinson. This book was released on 1898 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Richard Hannay 39 Steps Greenmantle Mr Steadfast Three Hostages Island of Sheep written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Richard Hannay includes the five John Buchan novels that feature the hero: 39 Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Steadfast, Three Hostages, Island of Sheep. Richard Hannay was one of the first modern spy thriller heroes and has shaped the genre. Hannay is strong and silent, combining the Scottish dourness with the English "stiff upper lip." He is tough and shrewd, courageous and resourceful. However, unlike later spy thrillers he has a greater breadth of emotion. He is philosophical and refuses to demonise his enemies, he falls in love, he is dependent upon his friends and he is religious. These books are exciting, with Richard Hannay being chased over moor and glen, they are page turning thrillers.
