With an introduction by Stuart Kelly Recently returned from South Africa adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot & is then promptly murdered in Hannay's London flat he becomes the obvious suspect & is forced to go on the run He heads north to his native Scotland fleeing the police & his enemies Hannay must keep his wits about him if he is to warn the government before all is too late