The Thirty-Nine Steps

Buchbeschreibung

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan is about Richard Hannay, who returns home to London during World War I after having lived and worked in Rhodesia as a mining engineer. One night, his neighbor, an American who claims to be in fear for his life, asks if Hannay can let him in. The man appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilize Europe, beginning with a plan to assassinate the Greek Premier, Constantine Karolides. Excerpt: "I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick."