Penguin Books Australia

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the...

'I was to be offered up as a sacrifice to some heathen god – an awful fate for a Free-kirk elder in the prime of life'

When Major Richard Hannay has his recuperation interrupted by a telegram from British Intelligence, his hopes are high for a promotion. However, his orders are not for Europe's battlefields, but for another deadly mission into the core of the enemy's secret plans. Teaming up with his good friend sandy Arbuthnot and the American agent...