Dickson McCunn is an affluent, 55-year-old grocer, who takes an early retirement and ventures out to explore the world. At once he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures, and forced to become a reluctant hero. McCunn is formidable and dangerous partly because he seems unremarkable and ordinary, and friends and enemies alike are taken by surprise when he acts with bold conviction. All 3 novels in this series are included in this MEGAPACK™:<P> HUNTINGTOWER...
Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan. In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. Hannay appears as a major character in five novels, all of which are included here:<P> The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)<BR> Greenmantle (1916)<BR> Mr Standfast (1919)<BR> The...
The Sir Edward Leithen series is cut from the same cloth as John Buchan's other great series, the John Hanay books. The heroes are similar, the pace breathtaking, and their adventures cross all country lines. This volume contains all 5 books in the series.<P> THE POWER HOUSE – The Power-House of the title is an international anarchist organization led by a rich Englishman named Andrew Lumley. Its plan to destroy Western civilisation is thwarted by Leithen with the assistance of a...