Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels from London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands and Islands in his search, which eventually ends in a spectacular climax above the battlefields of Europe.

John Buchan’s inside knowledge of trench warfare and government intelligence lend a formidable realism to this superlative story. A nail-biting classic from a master storyteller.

With an introduction by Hew Strachan.

This edition is authorised by the John Buchan Society.

• Cover page
• Biography page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Introduction
• Western Front
• Table of Contents
  • Note
  • Part I
    • One - The Wicket-Gate
    • Two - "The Village Named Morality"
    • Three - The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic
    • Four - Andrew Amos
    • Five - Various Doings in the West
    • Six - The Skirts of the Coolin
    • Seven - I Hear of the Wild Birds
    • Eight - The Adventures of a Bagman
    • Nine - I Take the Wings of a Dove
    • Ten - The Advantages of an Air Raid
    • Eleven - The Valley of Humiliation
  • Part II
    • Twelve - I Become a Combatant Once More
    • Thirteen - The Adventure of the Picardy Chateau
    • Fourteen - Mr Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War
    • Fifteen - St Anton
    • Sixteen - I Lie on a Hard Bed
    • Seventeen - The Col of the Swallows
    • Eighteen - The Underground Railway
    • Nineteen - The Cage of the Wild Birds
    • Twenty - The Storm Breaks in the West
    • Twenty-one - How an Exile Returned to His Own People
    • Twenty-two - The Summons Comes for Mr Standfast