German anarchists, called the Black Stone, plan to steal British naval intelligence in order to establish a naval blockade around England, starting a war across all of Europe. On the run, Hannay manages to break the code of the black book (Scudder wrote in code), and finds that the plot is even more sinister than Scudder led on. Thinking the police would not believe he was innocent, Hannay becomes a man on the run, pursued under false pretenses by the police and evil anarchists. One day Hannay arrives to the flat to find it ransacked and Scudder dead with a knife in the back.
Scudder writes down the whole plot in a black note book. Hannay allows the man to stay in his flat to hide out. Richard Hannay's ordinary life is shattered when he receives a frantic visitor, Scudder, who tells Hannay of a sinister plot by anarchists to assassinate the Greek Premier. Told from the first-person point of view, it relates the adventure of "ordinary fellow" Richard Hannay, who is thrust into a plot involving the theft of crucial military intelligence by German anarchists. The man appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilize Europe, beginning with a plan to assassinate the Greek Premier, Constantine Karolides, during his forthcoming visit to London.The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure spy novel by John Buchan written in 1914. One night his neighbor, an American who claims to be in fear for his life, visits Hannay. Richard Hannay returns home to London after living in Rhodesia.
In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels." In May of 1914, war looms in Europe. The novel formed the basis for a number of successful adaptations, including several film versions and a long-running stage play. It is the first of the five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan.
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