John Buchan's best-known thriller introduces his most enduring hero, Richard Hannay. Despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow,' Richard is caught up in a dangerous race against a plot to devastate the British war effort.
"Buchan's technique as a writer is simple enough and well displayed in The Thirty-Nine Steps. He understood that in a thriller…what matters above all is to keep the reader focused on what is going to happen next…It doesn't matter that the reader has no clue where he is being taken or, when he gets there, how the thing happened as it did. All that matters is that once you've started, you can't put
Telegraph (London)
London-born actor Rupert Degas brings his enticingly warm voice and an edge-of-your-seat intensity to his performance of John Buchan's famously propulsive spy thriller. Adapted many times, including by Alfred Hitchcock, the 1915 novel centers on mining engineer Richard Hannay, who hears of an international assassination plot and then must flee London when he becomes a murder suspect. Golden Voice
