The Thirty-Nine Steps

“I happen at this moment to be dead,” says the stranger at Richard Hannay’s door. The bored returned adventurer has found a reason to stay in England.

In a London flat on a clear May evening, Hannay is ready to quit England and return to the South African veld when his nervous upstairs neighbor slips inside, locks the door and claims he is already dead. The American’s tale reaches far beyond one frightened man: beneath Europe’s governments and armies, a conspiracy is working to set nations against one another—and it has not yet played its last card. Hannay has spent months yawning through London; now he must decide whether to trust a stranger who says a month is all that stands between him and catastrophe. What is the conspirators’ final card?

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