Sick Heart River is the fifth book in the Edward Leithen series. This is Buchans last novel, about a man who is dying, and it must reflect Buchans own efforts to come to terms with his looming demise."Sick Heart River finds Leithen now in his late fifties facing a terminal diagnosis of
The story re-introduces the reader to an older Richard Hannay, married and the father of a young son, living on a country estate. Our hero is pulled out of retirement by his old comrade, Bullivant, asking him to help track down three missing persons, taken so that the villain can, as well as
Skrócona wersja utworu Johna Buchana, stworzona do ćwiczenia języka angielskiego.
Tajemnica Czarnego Kamienia, na trop której naprowadza szyfrowany notatnik zamordowanego agenta, jest tajemnicą wielkich międzynarodowych przestępców, potrafiących wieść żywot dobrodusznych obywateli. Czy przestępcami są na pewno ci ludzie? Jak ich zdemaskować?
South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot all bound up with the mysterious
"39 schodów" to klasyczna powieść sensacyjna Johna Buchana, sfilmowana przez Alfreda Hitchcocka jako "39 kroków", w nowym tłumaczeniu Marcelego Szpaka, opatrzona posłowiem Wojciecha Orlińskiego. Znudzenie Richarda Hannaya londyńską socjetą ma się ku końcowi gdy gdy wplątuje się on w sieć spisków,
When Sir Edward Leithen leaves London to spend Whitsuntide as a guest at Flambard, he has no idea of the extraordinary sequence of events about to unfold. Among the collection of fellow guests, some of whom he knows and some he doesnt, is the extraordinary mind of Professor Moe, a scientist who
Regarded as one of the finest historical novels ever written, Jacobites, spies and thrilling intrigue are brought together by the master of suspense. As Bonnie Prince Charlie marches his army into England, his confidant Alastair Maclean is despatched on a secret mission. He is befriended by two
Castle Gay is the second of Buchans three Dickson McCunn books and is set in south west Scotland in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the 1920s. The plot revolves around the self-discovery of a media mogul named Craw, who is firstly the subject of mistaken identity and then the target of Balkan
