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Thirty-Nine Steps
- Author
- John Buchan
- Narrator
- David Thorn
- Publish Date
- 20 February 2014
- Run Time
- 4 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Richard Hannay, Buchan’s hero in this classic 1915 thriller, stumbles across a terrorist plot to destabilize Europe. A British spy in the mold of James Bond, Hannay is an action man with a polished veneer. After a series of murders, Hannay takes up the cause when he has to go on the run. An action-packed series of events come to an exciting conclusion.
Critics Review
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“It is the dimension of the mysterious that makes Buchan’s writing so unfailingly compelling.”
John Keegan, author of A History of Warfare
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“Buchan’s technique as a writer is simple enough and well displayed in The Thirty-Nine Steps. He understood that in a thriller…what matters above all is to keep the reader focused on what is going to happen next…It doesn’t matter that the reader has no clue where he is being taken or, when he gets there, how the thing happened as it did. All that matters is that once you’ve started, you can’t put the book down.”
Telegraph (London)
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Details
- Author
- John Buchan
- Narrator
- David Thorn
- Duration
- 4 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 February 2014
- ISBN
- 9781483012407
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Thriller / suspense fiction, Classic fiction, Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
Richard Hannay, Buchan’s hero in this classic 1915 thriller, stumbles across a terrorist plot to destabilize Europe. A British spy in the mold of James Bond, Hannay is an action man with a polished veneer. After a series of murders, Hannay takes up the cause when he has to go on the run. An action-packed series of events come to an exciting conclusion.
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