The Richard Hannay Adventures

November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a mission to investigate rumours of a plot to create a holy war throughout the Muslim world and draw troops and resources from the Western Front. Greenmantle is a gripping reflection on the power of political Islam, and demonstrates Buchan’s exemplary storytelling ability and political insight.

Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels...

A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him honour-bound to resolve a violent vendetta in which the lives of a young father and his daughter are in danger from unscrupulous and desperate men. Hannay sets out on a high-octane chase from the rural tranquillity of his English manor to the Scottish Borders and, ultimately, to Scandinavia.

After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no...

The Thirty-Nine Steps is the original spy thriller and the inspiration for countless books, films and games. Adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after an encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered in Hannay’s London flat, he becomes the suspect and is forced to go on the run.