![]() ![]() His creator was obviously influenced by Conan Doyle ( No 26 in this series) and would, in turn, later influence Graham Greene and Ian Fleming.īuchan's other great contribution to this genre, which also owes something to Kidnapped ( No 24 in this series) was to refine the "man on the run" yarn into a page-turning adventure. Hannay, who would feature in four more subsequent Buchan thrillers, is a mix of sleuth and action man, a cross between Sherlock Holmes and James Bond. Buchan's contribution to this "dime novel" scenario was to create in his protagonist, Richard Hannay, an appealing antihero, both cool and brave, but also "pretty well disgusted with life" who, caught up in a high-octane international drama, has the resource, intelligence and daring to thwart a naked foreign attempt to drag Britain into war. ![]() ![]() Buchan, who worked for the British War Propaganda Bureau, was well-versed in this Edwardian genre and the outbreak of war across the Channel became the perfect inspiration for a topical and thrilling tale of acute jeopardy involving British secrets, German spies and the sinister plotting of the Black Stone gang, a conspiracy hellbent on fomenting a vicious global conflict. ![]()
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