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The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

A bored engineer stumbles onto a murder and a secret that could save Britain — the original man-on-the-run spy thriller, chased across the Scottish Borders.

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The Thirty-Nine Steps: A Complete Guide to Buchan's Spy Thriller

Explore The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan — the 1915 espionage classic that invented the man-on-the-run thriller, with spies, disguise, and a desperate.

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