Book description
A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him
honour-bound to resolve a violent vendetta in which the lives of a
young father and his daughter are in danger from desperate men. Hannay
sets out on a high-octane chase from the rural tranquillity of his
English manor to the Scottish Borders and, ultimately, to Scandinavia.
John Buchan was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist,
historian, poet and novelist. He published nearly 30 novels and seven
collections of short stories. He was born in Perth, an eldest son, and
studied at Glasgow and Oxford. In 1901 he became a barrister of the
Middle Temple and a private secretary to the High Commissioner for South
Africa. In 1907 he married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor and they
subsequently had four children. After spells as a war correspondent,
Lloyd George's Director of Information and Conservative MP, Buchan moved
to Canada in 1935. He served as Governor General there until his death
in 1940.
