The Thirty-Nine Steps Av John Buchan

<p><b>Discover the original and best adventure story ever told.</b><br><b><br> ¿The father of the modern espionage¿ <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay''s life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine steps?<br><br><b>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTON</b></p>