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....

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....

I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back.....

Joined by Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, adventurer Richard Hannay travels across war-torn Europe in search of the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem. This espionage novel set during the...

Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot....

Going against everything Hannay believes in, he finds himself working undercover infiltrating a pacifist organisation....

Here is one of the first espionage thrillers and an acknowledged classic....

A fascinating collection of short stories by great writers that examine aspects of the first world war....

The world since earliest times has always had spies. Information is a valuable commodity and even more so in times of war or tension. Many authors and poets have had real life incarnations as spies from Christopher Marlowe and Aphra Behn to Daniel Defoe.

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.

Three gentlemen not wholly useless to their country—a lawyer, a banker, and a cabinet minister—have suddenly fallen into a state of profound ennui. Each seeks to rediscover the comfort of their lives through ‘the tonic of difficulty': adopting the nom de guerre of ‘John Macnab', they...

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.

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

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....

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....