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Скачать книгу (размер 519 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 103) Аннотация: Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life — until a murder is committed in his flat, just days after the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring Britain to the brink of war. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland, where he must use…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 042 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 990) Аннотация: Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent type, combining the dour temperament of the Scot with the stiff upper lip of the Englishman, Hannay is pre-eminent among early spy-thriller heroes. Caught up in the first of these five gripping…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley. Following his adventures foiling the plans of the Black Stone gang in The Thirty-Nine Steps, Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A man is killed in Richard Hannay's home. Before his death he tells Hannay a dangerous secret. Now Hannay's life is in danger. Who are his enemies and what are they trying to do? And how will he solve the mystery of the thirty-nine steps?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Richard Hannay, the hero of «The Thirty-nine Steps», is recalled by the Head of British Intelligence from the Western Front at a critical moment in the battle for France, he has little idea that his contribution to the war effort will be much more crucial than the command of his Brigade in Flanders. In his strange odyssey to unravel the most sinister of conspiracies — to defeat the allies in…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A man is killed in Richard Hannay’s home. Before his death he tells Hannay a dangerous secret. Now Hannay’s life is in danger. Who are his enemies and what are they trying to do? And how will he solve the mystery of ‘the thirty-nine steps’?

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. '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…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Greenmantle continues the thrilling adventures of Richard Hannay from convalescence following the Battle of Loos, back to London for a vital meeting at the Foreign Office and thence on a top-secret mission across war-torn German-occupied Europe. His mission; to neutralise and destroy a cunning and potentially devastating German plot to foment Holy War in the Islamic Near East, which could ignite…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides to mastermind the whole affair out of a sheer love of adventure and a dislike of villains.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Following the end of the First World War Richard Hannay, the hero of «The Thirty-Nine Steps», «Greenmantle» and «Mr Standfast», has retired to the Cotswolds with his wife and young son. There, news comes to him of three kidnappings and a plot of political and financial magnitude that would shake the world.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: When Richard Hannay returns from a long stay in Africa, he becomes caught up in a sensational plot to precipitate a pan-European war. After a corpse is found in his flat, Hannay flees the attentions of both the conspirators and the law, and a manhunt ensues.