The original and best adventure story ever told, with spies, thrilling chase scenes and explosions
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?
Biografia: John Buchan, 1º Barão Tweedsmuir, foi um romancista escocês, mais conhecido pela seu romance The Thirty-Nine Steps, e um político unionista que serviu como Governador-geral do Canadá.
