Mr. Standfast

A decorated brigadier sits in a railway carriage in grey tweeds while strangers sneer that he isn’t fighting. Richard Hannay’s new orders are to make sure they keep thinking so.

In the summer of 1917, Hannay is pulled from the Western Front and sent into an England of quiet lanes, country houses and secrets. His first task is to shed his uniform, take a new name and pose as a man who thinks the war should end at once—a role that turns his stomach. The men who recruited him promise a difficult mission, one that may become “damnably” risky, but won’t yet tell him what it is. His trail leads to Fosse Manor, where two hospitable ladies are expecting a visitor. What will they ask him to do?

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