Mr. Standfast Paperback / softback
by John Buchan
Paperback / softback
Description
Mr. Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.
It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started.
The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, to which there are many other references in the novel; Hannay uses a copy of Pilgrim's Progress to decipher coded messages from his contacts, and letters from his friend Peter Pienaar.
During the later years of the First World War Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large in Britain.
Hannay is required to work undercover disguised as a pacifist, roaming the country incognito to investigate a German spy and his agents, and then heads to the Swiss Alps to save Europe from being overwhelmed by the German army.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:284 pages
- Publisher:Double 9 Books
- Publication Date:01/01/2023
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- ISBN:9789357278966
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:284 pages
- Publisher:Double 9 Books
- Publication Date:01/01/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9789357278966