The Thirty-Nine Steps

　　理察．漢納是個生於蘇格蘭，在南非長大的礦場工程師。他回到英國時，第一次世界大戰正是山雨欲來。漢納在無意之間，涉入了牽連整個歐洲軍情的國際陰謀，被英國警方和秘密間諜組織所追捕，而亡命蘇格蘭荒原。膽識過人，善於喬裝和解碼的漢納，要如何在步步險棋中求生存，挽救個人和國家的危機？「三十九級階梯」一語看似無甚意義，卻是整個事件的關鍵符碼，等著讀者和漢納去揭開這個謎。

　　Famous as the basis for several films, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic of early twentieth-century popular literature.

　　Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot that could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.