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Mr. Standfast: A Classic British Spy Thriller
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515428213
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Richard Hannay returns in one of John Buchan's finest espionage adventures, combining wartime suspense, secret intelligence, dangerous conspiracies, and relentless pursuit across the landscape of the First World War. In Mr. Standfast, Hannay is drawn into a deadly mission to uncover enemy agents operating within Britain while pursuing a mysterious and elusive German mastermind whose activities threaten the Allied war effort.
Originally published in 1919, the novel continues Buchan's celebrated Hannay series following The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle. Blending espionage, military adventure, political intrigue, coded identities, and psychological tension, Buchan helped establish many of the foundations of the modern spy thriller decades before the rise of writers such as Ian Fleming and John le Carré.
Set against the uncertainty and exhaustion of wartime Europe, Mr. Standfast combines fast-paced storytelling with atmospheric settings, memorable villains, narrow escapes, and the growing sophistication of intelligence operations during modern warfare. Richard Hannay remains one of the great adventure protagonists of early twentieth-century fiction: resourceful, resilient, patriotic, and capable of navigating both physical danger and complex political deception.
Widely regarded as one of the classics of British espionage fiction, Mr. Standfast captures both the excitement and the anxiety of a world transformed by global conflict and modern intelligence warfare.
Ideal for readers of classic spy fiction, wartime thrillers, British adventure novels, espionage literature, historical suspense, and early twentieth-century fiction.
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