John Buchan

An espionage thriller that has been called the first great spy novel, it has sustained its popularity, being embraced by each new generation....

This fine collection of intelligent, unabridged short stories about intriguing, interesting and sometimes inspirational men is an audio treat for young and old, male or female....

Greenmantle sees the return of Richard Hannay as he is sent on a secret mission to weaken Germany's efforts during the First World War....

The listener can now enjoy all five adventures of Buchan's indefatigable hero Richard Hannay in one bundle....

A superb collection of captivating short stories by leading classic writers....

Richard Hannay is bored—until his neighbor shows up with a wild story of espionage, an impending war, and a mysterious organization called the 39 Steps. Hours later, the man is dead, and Hannay is the prime suspect.

Richard Hannay is an ordinary man caught in extraordinary circumstances. A bored expatriate returning to London, he finds his life upended when a mysterious American stumbles into his flat with a terrifying secret—a secret so dangerous that men are willing to kill for it.

Published in 1927, Scottish writer John Buchan's Witch Wood is set in a rural parish located in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....

During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate. Amongst the very many was ‘The Yellow Book’....

Considered a masterpiece by critics, John Buchan’s Witch Wood combines the author’s interests in landscape, Calvinism, and the fate of Scotland after the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....

The classic adventure of Richard Hannay—an ordinary Englishman who is “pretty well disgusted with life.” His boredom takes a turn when he finds himself involved in a thrilling race to deliver important intelligence to the British government before German anarchists stop him....

Sir Richard Hannay begins to fear that his idyllic existence with his family in their Cotswolds home is a little too comfortable. Then echoes of a past adventure during his days in Africa, and an old oath to protect the son of the man whom he saved then, draw him into new danger....

This espionage novel set during the First World War features thrilling disguises, despicable plots, and some of the most devious spies in literature....

As war looms in Europe, Richard Hannay returns from Rhodesia to his home in London. His neighbor, an American freelance spy named Franklin Scudder, claims to know of an assassination plot to destabilize Europe....

After his wartime exploits, Sir Richard Hannay is now married to Mary and determined to remain peacefully in their idyllic Cotswolds home. But when he receives appeals to help recover the kidnapped children of three prominent men, Hannay cannot in good conscience refuse....

1914. O mundo se vê na iminência de um colapso que alteraria irremediavelmente os rumos da História. Enquanto isso, o aventureiro Richard Hannay morre de tédio pelas agitadas ruas da City londrina....

Mr. Standfast is the third of Buchan's thrilling World War I adventure novels in which Brigadier-General Richard Hannay is reluctantly plucked from the trenches of the Western Front to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring....

Richard Hannay, fringant trentenaire, s'ennuie ferme à Londres... Plus pour longtemps : son voisin de palier, qui venait de lui révéler des informations...

A year after the adventure of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Major Richard Hannay is plucked from the trenches of the Western Front, and sent on a perilous journey through the very heart of the German empire, to Constantinople....

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) is an adventure novel in the espionage genre by the Scottish author John Buchan. A classic of the genre, it is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an action hero with a knack for getting himself out of difficult situations....