<div>In an English country house, a strange experiment is about to take place: &ldquo;A gem . . . unadulterated entertainment&rdquo; (The New York Times). In this unique blend of suspense, satire, and science fiction, Sir Edward Leithen settles in for a holiday weekend at Lady Flambard&rsquo;s stately home in the Cotswolds. But the house party turns strange when one of the guests, the enigmatic physicist and mathematician Professor Moe, enlists the help of Leithen and his companions in a bizarre experiment meant to give them a glimpse of the future. For those who take part, the consequences will be dramatic&mdash;and test Leithen&rsquo;s formidable powers of reasoning&mdash;making for a &ldquo;confident, assured&rdquo; novel (The Spectator) from John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and a recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.</div>

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The Gap in the Curtain

<div>In this classic historical adventure by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, a young monastic scholar is groomed to take the throne from Henry VIII. It is 1536, and powerful men reveal to Peter Pentecost that it is he, and not the tyrannical Henry VIII, who should be on the throne of England. Can they persuade him to risk everything in a treasonable rebellion against the throne? In the hands of John Buchan&mdash;one of Alfred Hitchcock&rsquo;s favorite writers&mdash;the dark, dangerous days of Tudor England come alive like never before.</div>

The Blanket of the Dark

<div>A young man&rsquo;s yearning for adventure draws him into jeopardy during the Jacobite Rebellion in this historical novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Once described as &ldquo;a tale of adventure and betrayal on the long bloody road to Culloden Moor,&rdquo; A Lost Lady of Old Years is set in Scotland during the Rebellion of 1745. Young Edinburgh-born Francis Birkenshaw cares nothing for the Jacobite cause until an encounter with the beautiful Mrs. Margaret Murray leads to a dangerous involvement with her husband, John Murray of Broughton, Bonnie Prince Charlie&rsquo;s secretary and an infamous turncoat . . .</div>

A Lost Lady of Old Years

<div>A young man must fight for his land and the woman he loves in 17th-century Scotland, in this historical novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. The turbulent &ldquo;Killing Times&rdquo; of the Covenanters is the backdrop to a desperate struggle between lifelong rivals . . . John Burnet of Barns, the last of an ancient line of Border Reivers, returns home from abroad to find himself denounced as an agent of the Covenanters. Outlawed and deprived of his inheritance by his ruthless cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, John must now fight just to survive . . . John Buchan&#39;s first full-length work of fiction is a tale of adventure in the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson.</div>

John Burnet of Barns

<div>In this classic by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, a retiring hero&rsquo;s past draws him into an action-packed adventure capped by a deadly standoff. A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him honor-bound to resolve a violent vendetta endangering the lives of a young father and his daughter from unscrupulous and desperate men. Hannay sets out on a high-octane chase from the rural tranquility of his English manor to the Scottish Borders, and ultimately to Scandinavia. On the remote Island of Sheep, a final confrontation begins, and everything will be decided, once and for all . . . This, the last of the Hannay adventures&mdash;and the last of Buchan&rsquo;s novels to be published during his lifetime&mdash;is a rare gem of high drama interwoven with Buchan&rsquo;s personal beliefs about the problems of a post-war world. Previously published as The Man from the Norlands</div>

The Island of Sheep

<div>In this classic thriller by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, an English professor is drawn into a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. When Anthony Lammas, minister of the Kirk and Professor of Logic at St. Andrews University, leaves his hometown for London on business, he little imagines that within two days he will be deeply entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue. But he&rsquo;s no ordinary professor. His boyhood allegiance to a brotherhood of deep-sea fishermen is about to involve him and handsome ex-pupil, Lord Belses, with a beautiful but dangerous woman. Set in the bleak Yorkshire hamlet of Hungrygrain during the Napoleonic Wars, this is a stirring tale of treason and romance.</div>

The Free Fishers

<div>From the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, three bored, middle-aged men plot a challenging adventure in the Scottish Highlands in this classic novel. In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John MacNab: three high-flying, middle-aged men&mdash;a barrister, a cabinet minister, and a banker&mdash;are suffering from boredom. They concoct a risky plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will poach two stags and a salmon from each, in a given time. They sign collectively as &ldquo;John McNab&rdquo; and await the responses . . . This novel from one of Hitchcock&rsquo;s favorite writers is a light interlude within the &ldquo;Leithen Stories&rdquo; series&mdash;an evocative look at the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.</div>

John Macnab

<div>The author of the Thirty-Nine Steps blends history with fantasy and horror in this tale of a Scottish minister torn between his church and his king. Seventeenth-century Scotland is immersed in a terrifying era. Although his new parishioners are staunch supporters of the National Covenant, moderate young minister David Sempill is not so certain. Then one dark night, Sempill witnesses a demonic ritual performed in the Black Wood of Melanudrigill. What he does next will determine if he can save his truly parish . . . or even himself . . . With an introduction by Allan Massie</div>

Witch Wood

<div>Four classic adventure novels starring Scottish hero Sir Edward Leithen from the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, who &ldquo;invented the modern spy novel&rdquo; (New Statesman). Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, politician, sportsman and occasional philosopher, was probably the most autobiographical of John Buchan&rsquo;s heroes. This collection of four novels, written over a span of thirty years, shows Leithen/Buchan in all his moods&mdash;from the urban menace of The Power-House in which &ldquo;the thin line between civilization and barbarism&rdquo; runs through London&rsquo;s West End; to the Highland exhilaration of John Macnab; the twists and turns of The Dancing Floor; and Sick Heart River, where Leithen meets death and redemption in the wastes of Canada. Buchan&rsquo;s learning and practical experience took him far beyond the range of the &ldquo;clubland hero&rdquo; and these tales lead us to the heart of one of Scotland&rsquo;s most fascinating and enigmatic writers. &ldquo;John Buchan was the first to realize the enormous dramatic value of adventure in familiar surroundings happening to unadventurous men.&rdquo;&mdash;Graham Greene &ldquo;Leithen is his most autobiographical [character] . . . It&rsquo;s Leithen who stars in The Power-House (serialized in 1913), the novel that kicked off Buchan&rsquo;s run of &lsquo;shockers&rsquo;&mdash;as he called his thrillers and adventure stories. And it is Leithen who brings it to a close in Sick Heart River (1941). If Hannay is the man of empire, all blunt action and luck brought on by confidence, Leithen is the man of the capital, a power broker bent on doing good but also on escaping to the country at week&rsquo;s end.&rdquo;&mdash;The Wall Street Journal</div>

The Leithen Stories

<div>The second installment in the electrifying adventures of Richard Hannay, Britain&rsquo;s greatest secret agent Major Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, is recovering from wounds sustained in the bloody Battle of Loos when his old friend Sir Walter Bullivant summons him to the Foreign Office. Hoping for a promotion, Hannay is asked instead to investigate rumors that a &ldquo;star rising in the West&rdquo; is about to bring the entirety of the Muslim world under the Kaiser&rsquo;s control. Hannay enlists the help of a polyglot British soldier and a dyspeptic American spy to go undercover first in Germany and then in Constantinople, where the glamorous and enigmatic Hilda von Einem is behind the conspiracy. In a stunning climax set during the pivotal clash between Russian and Ottoman forces over the Turkish city of Erzerum, Hannay and his cohorts risk everything to ensure that England and her allies will live to fight another day. With its skillful blend of political insight and heart-stopping action, Greenmantle was a huge step forward in the development of the modern espionage novel. It was also, and still very much is, an irresistible thrill ride from first page to last. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

Greenmantle

<div>In the last of his World War I adventures, Richard Hannay undertakes his most dangerous assignment yet When England calls, Richard Hannay answers. Not yet forty and already a brigadier general, he has led the charge into some of the fiercest fighting of World War I: Loos, the Somme, Arras. There is no telling how far up the ranks he might climb if only the Foreign Office would stop taking him off the front lines for cloak and dagger work. Adding insult to injury, Hannay&rsquo;s latest clandestine mission requires him to commit the most shameful of sins in a country under siege: pacifism. In the idyllic Cotswolds, a circle of conscientious objectors has been infiltrated by a masterful German spy. To unmask the enemy, Hannay must disavow everything he holds dear. Fortunately, his old American friend John Blenkiron is also on the case, as is Mary Lamington, a brave and beautiful girl with the rare ability to turn Hannay from thoughts of war. First things first, though&mdash;before love comes duty, and the trail of treachery runs all the way from the south of England, to a pink chalet high in the Swiss mountains, to Parisian streets echoing with the roar of German guns. Published just a few months after the Allied victory, Mr. Standfast is an homage to the courage and fortitude of every patriot in His Majesty&rsquo;s service. It is also one of the most thrilling and unforgettable spy novels ever written. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

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Mr. Standfast

<div>An international organization of anarchists threatens to overthrow civilization as we know it&mdash;and it&rsquo;s up to Edward Leithen to save the Western world A group of anarchists known as the Power-House sees all of civilization as a vast and sinister conspiracy, something to be overcome and destroyed. Standing up against the Power-House is Tory member of Parliament and lawyer Edward Leithen, a self-described man of hesitation whose stance thrusts him into a reality he never knew existed. London becomes a sinister underworld in which he could be spirited away at any moment, never to be heard from again. Leithen quickly falls into a maze of paranoia, knowing that if he fails to stop the Power-House, their anarchy will consume the world. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

Overdrive

The Power-House

<div>Retired grocer Dickson McCunn embarks on the journey of a lifetime in John Buchan&rsquo;s classic adventure tale Dickson McCunn has led a respectable, if unremarkable, life. He&rsquo;s a grocer in Edinburgh and an esteemed member of the community. Still, he has a romantic spirit. For his entire life, all of his adventures have taken place in the pages of books, but he&rsquo;s always wanted to play more of a part in the real world than just providing his neighborhood with vegetables. When his wife goes on vacation and he retires from his business, he finally gets his chance to take the trip across Scotland that he&rsquo;s always dreamed of. But after a chance meeting with a Communist poet in the coastal town of Dalquharter, McCunn finds himself on an adventure that is far more perilous than any he&rsquo;s ever read about. McCunn is forced into action when his new acquaintance informs him that a Russian princess is being held captive in Huntingtower, a nearby castle. As the Russians close in, McCunn must become the hero he&rsquo;s always wished he could be. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

Huntingtower

<div>A Scottish barrister gets entangled in a web of deadly superstition and danger on a small Greek island in this novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Though Sir Edward Leithen is not one to take superstition seriously, he is sympathetic to his friend Vernon Milburne, who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare since childhood. Now, as the two men embark on an Aegean cruise, the dream&rsquo;s disturbing portents seem to be coming true in ways neither man could have imagined. In Plakos, Greece, Englishwoman Kor&eacute; Arabin is in grave danger. The islanders believe her to be a witch, and it is up to Edward and Vernon to save her. But the more they learn of Kor&eacute;&rsquo;s family history, the closer they come to uncovering the evil that lurks in her island home. First published in 1926, The Dancing Floor continues the saga of Sir Edward Leithen, John Buchan&rsquo;s popular character featured in The Power-House and John Macnab. Here, Buchan explores themes of fallacy and reason, paganism and Christianity.</div>

The Dancing Floor

<div>The novel of international intrigue and adventure that set the standard for the modern spy thriller One May evening in 1914, an ordinary Londoner named Richard Hannay receives word of an anarchist plot to assassinate the prime minister of Greece. A few nights later, the eccentric American who revealed the conspiracy is found stabbed to death in Hannay&rsquo;s flat. With only the dead man&rsquo;s encrypted notes to guide him, Hannay must try to foil the assassination attempt while outpacing both the police and the conspirators, whose dastardly plans extend far beyond one Greek politician. The fate of England, it seems, rests on one mysterious phrase repeated throughout the American&rsquo;s notebook; just what exactly are the thirty-nine steps? Buchan&rsquo;s groundbreaking novel, the first in a series featuring Richard Hannay, was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock and paved the way for Graham Greene, Robert Ludlum, John le Carr&eacute;, and many other masters of literary espionage. Lightning-paced, relentlessly clever, and politically insightful, The Thirty-Nine Steps is just as thrilling today as when it was first published a century ago. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

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