"“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 . . .” (Extract)
Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is a character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and based on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. In this adventure espionage classic Richard Hannay is buttonholed by an American stranger who knows of an anarchist plot to assassinate the Greek Premier during his forthcoming visit to London. It is now up to Hannay to save the day and stop Europe from destabilising.
John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. "

This book is donated to BookCrossing by a friend.

I read it a very long time ago, so I will send it travelling.

For the book buffet at the Convention mention in Oslo 2017.

Picked up at the convention.

A classic action story.