Buchan, John, 1875-1940

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Nine_Steps Release date is 1996-06-01

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"The Thirty-Nine Steps" by John Buchan is an adventure novel published in 1915. Richard Hannay, a mining engineer from Rhodesia, finds himself caught in a deadly conspiracy when his neighbor is murdered in his London flat. Possessing only a cryptic coded notebook, Hannay flees to Scotland, pursued by both police and German spies seeking to steal Britain's naval secrets. Racing against time before war erupts across Europe, he must decipher the mystery of the thirty-nine steps and stop an international plot that could change history. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction Spy stories Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction

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