The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

⏱ 7 minAdventure classic

A restless man finds a spy murdered in his flat and flees across the Scottish moors, hunted by police and by a ring of enemies who can seem to be anyone, racing to stop the theft of Britain's war plans. The lean grandfather of the modern thriller.

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