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The three hostages

John Buchan

1971272 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1971
first published
  • 1971Knight · 283 pages · ENGISBN 9780340155806
  • 1981Penguin · 283 pages · ENGISBN 9780140009088
  • 1983Amereon House · 282 pages · ENGISBN 9780891902454
  • 1995Oxford University Press · ENGISBN 9780192824196
  • 2014READ Books · 462 pages · ENGISBN 9781473317215
  • 1998Wordsworth Editions Ltd · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9781853262524
  • 2001House of Stratus · 332 pages · ENGISBN 9781842327944
  • 2005Dodo Press · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9781406501308

Major General Sir Richard Hannay thought that his life of adventure and danger was behind him with the end of the Great War. He was wrong. When an old colleague comes asking for help, Hannay has to come out of retirement to battle a secret society that has kidnapped three innocents to advance their schemes. Hannay, aided by his intrepid wife Mary and his old friends, plunges into a pool of intrigue and hypnosis to find and rescue the Three Hostages before they come to deadly harm. Hannay, the Everyman hero, perseveres through a combination of pluck, grit, clear thinking and trusting in his friends. This time the danger strikes close to home and Hannay may lose everyone that he cares about.

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