La centrale d'energie

Richard Hannay, ancien ingénieur des mines, vient de rentrer à Londres après plusieurs années passées en Afrique du Sud. Très vite, la capitale britannique l'ennuie au plus haut point. Il rencontre alors un Américain qui lui parle d'un complot qui pourrait avoir de terribles répercussions sur l'Europe entière. Hannay accepte de le cacher dans son appartement. Mais, en rentrant chez lui, un soir, il découvre son cadavre. Suspect pour la police, proie pour les assassins, Hannay prend la fuite. Il lui faut dès lors éclaircir cette ténébreuse affaire, et comprendre où mènent les 39 marches...

Les 39 marches

Recalled from duty on the Western Front by renowned spymaster Sir Walter Bullivant, British secret agent Richard Hannay goes undercover as a pacifist, working to outwit a dangerous German spy and his agents. Guided by his contact-and love interest-Mary Lamington, Hannay tracks his enemy from London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands, eventually confronting him in a dramatic climax above the battlefields of Europe. Revisiting the memorable characters from The Thirty-Nine Steps, Mr. Standfast is one of two Richard Hannay novels set during the First World War. The Thirty-Nine Steps and its four sequels established John Buchan as an original thriller writer, and a pioneer of espionage fiction. HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Mr. Standfast

John Buchan's "Greenmantle" is a 1916 adventure and espionage novel. In this second book of the Richard Hannay series (following The Thirty-Nine steps), Hannay is called to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant at the beginning of the story. His mission: thwart German plans to wreak havoc in the Near East and Middle East through religious uprising. Hannay will gather his friends, and together they will travel to the Bosphorus, and fight bigger than life characters along the way. Discover Greenmantle with its original preface and biography in this new edition by Les Éditions de Londres.

Greenmantle

Frère d'armes de Richard Hannay - le héros des Trente-neuf marches - l'avocat Leithen se trouve confronté dans ce roman à la confrérie audacieuse et redoutable qui donne son titre à l'ouvrage.Au fil de rebondissements dignes d'un film d'Hitchcock, Leithen parviendra à déjouer l'étrange complot qui menace son pays. Comme dans le reste de son œuvre, John Buchan apparaît captivant, prophétique, profondément original.

La centrale d'énergie

Richard Hannay travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more heroes: Peter Pienaar; John S Blenkiron; and, Sandy Arbuthnot. They move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border to face their enemies: the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem.

Deployed to the Middle East during the First World War, British secret agent Richard Hannay must stop the Germans and Turks from creating an uprising in the Muslim World-an uprising that would prove devastating to Allied efforts to win the war. Forced to find his own way through enemy territory to rendezvous with his friend and comrade Sandy Arbuthnot, Richard's survival depends on figuring out the enemy's plan and stopping it before it is too late. Revisiting the memorable characters from The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle is one of two Richard Hannay novels set during the First World War. The Thirty-Nine Steps and its four sequels established John Buchan as an original thriller writer and pioneer of espionage fiction. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

1745. Agent de Charles Stuart qui entreprend la reconquête du trône anglais, le jeune Alastair Maclean croise les destinées de Midwinter, curieux seigneur des marges anglaises ; de la belle Claudia Norreys et de son traître et veule époux ; de Nicholas Kyd, bon vivant ambigu ; et de l'absurde et sagace Samuel Johnson, qui deviendra son fidèle ami. Dans une sauvage Angleterre magnifiée par l'hiver, Alastair achèvera, dans la douleur, une éducation sentimentale et guerrière des plus mélancoliques. Ce roman historique haut en couleurs et en rebondissements, inédit en France, rappelle le génie narratif de ce grand auteur britannique qu'est John Buchan. Il est mené tambour battant, à bride abattue et enthousiasmera ceux qui aiment que l'Histoire soit magnifiée par une belle écriture.

John Buchan (1875-1940) Écossais, homme d'état, Gouverneur général du Canada, fut d'abord responsable de l'Intelligence Service puis Ministre de l'information. Avant tout c'est un écrivain prolifique et célébré de romans d'aventures, historiques, fantastiques et d'espionnage et éditeur chez Nelson. On lui doit des livres majeurs régulièrement redécouverts qui ont enchanté la jeunesse de plusieurs générations : Salut aux coureurs d'aventures, Les 39 marches, La Centrale d'énergie, Le manteau vert

Ceux de Midwinter ou Certains voyageurs de la Vieille Angleterre

When an international anarchist organization called The Power-House threatens to destroy Western civilization, lawyer and MP Edward Leithen must race against time and his friend Charles Pitt-Lumley, a new Power-House recruit, to restore stability to the Western system. With keen intellect and instincts, John Buchan's indomitable Sir Edward Leithen features prominently in several other novels, including John Macnab, The Dancing Floor, The Gap in the Curtain, and Sick Heart River. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

La centrale d'energie

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