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Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
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Written more than a hundred years ago, the suspenseful plot, the language, and the rapid sequence of events make of this wonderful novel a seminal in the man-on-the-run genre. There's plotting, there's spying, murders, secret organizations, and big evil schemes. The First of Richard Hannay's adventures places this gentleman in a big messy situation he did not ask for. The whole thing can be read as the growing tension prior to the first World War, but can also give some insight on human behavior under strenuous circumstances. To read for fun is really fun! But to let such bits of very interesting data go to waste without making use of them is a little frustrating. Therefore, let us do both with Mr. Hannay's tale and read fiction as if it wasn't just fiction. In that case what could the novel teach us?1. Do the right things.. Only you know and determine what they are. 2. Be brave but not reckless. 3. Never despair; there's always hope. 4. Don't trust yourself with other people. (I am not saying they are bad or less able than yourself, but you have a brain of your own! use it, and seek your own advice!)