Mr Standfast Sample

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English - November 17, 2020 21:59 - 3 minutes - 3.24 MB
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Mr Standfast
By John Buchan

Narrated by Graham Scott

Listed in the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World', 'Mr Standfast' is the third of Buchan's thrilling, fast-paced World War I adventure novels, following "The Thirty-Nine Steps", and "Greenmantle": in which Brigadier-General Richard Hannay is reluctantly plucked from the trenches of the Western Front, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. In pursuit of the spy master, Hannay encounters comrades old and new, and earns the love of a beautiful and intelligent woman - but he discovers that his foe is an old adversary, and even more deadly than he had imagined; and he comes to realise that only the ultimate sacrifice can save the day for England...