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1) The 39 Steps
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Europe is close to war and spies are everywhere. Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia, in order to begin a new life. One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his life. The man appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, beginning with a plan to assassinate the Greek Premier,...
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I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world against me, and those are things that no men or women ought to feel. When adventurer Richard Hannay is alerted of an assassination plot that could completely take down Europe, he finds himself caught in a tangled web of politics and must run to his home of Scotland to evade arrest. In order to prevent his arrest and the destruction of his country, he must figure out what the...
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