John Buchan

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

The Thirty-Nine Steps begins John Buchan’s series of spy novels featuring adventurer Richard Hannay. Having just returned from South Africa, he finds life dull until a mysterious American tells him about an assassination plot before being murdered in Hannay’s London flat.

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

Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War Sir, Edward Leithen is told that he has but one year left to live....

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.

Hannay to the rescue once more! This time...our hero is summoned from his tranquil life in rural Oxfordshire to save the world from a financial conspiracy....

A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers....

The last of John Buchan’s thrillers and the final appearance of Richard Hannay now in retirement reverie deep in the comfortable Cotswolds....

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

May 1914: Europe is on the brink of war. London is riddled with spies. Richard Hannay has just returned from Rhosesia, and intends to begin a new, quiet, sedentary life....

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...

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.

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....

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...

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....

John Buchan himself stated that he set out to write a book in the style of the ubiquitous American “Dime Novel”. What he actually succeeded in creating was a relatively unique and new genre for British literature, the Spy Novel....

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....