5/29/2023 0 Comments The thirty nine steps book summaryPublished in 1915, its first audience knew that whatever Hannay did, he didn’t succeed in preventing war, so that couldn’t be the point of the conspiracy or of the attempt to defeat it. And so the chase is on…īuchan described the book as a “shocker” and that’s basically what it is – what we’d now call an action thriller. When Scudder is then killed, Hannay finds himself possessed of a secret and Scudder’s coded notebook, running from the conspirators who want to kill him and the police who want to arrest him for Scudder’s murder. It’s four weeks until he can reveal what he knows to the authorities, though, and he begs Hannay’s help to keep him hidden till then. Scudder tells him that he’s discovered a conspiracy, one that, if it succeeds, will shake the world. But then a man he doesn’t know turns up at his door seeking help. He’ll give it another couple of days, he decides, and if nothing exciting happens, he’ll return to one of the outposts of Empire. Richard Hannay has returned from South Africa and is finding England dull. It’s May 1914 and war is looming over Europe.
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