Hannay eventually steals a police car only to send it off into a ravine as he barely escapes with his life by clutching onto a branch. German anarchists, called the Black Stone, plan to steal British naval intelligence in order to establish a naval blockade around England, starting a war across all of Europe. On the run, Hannay manages to break the code of the black book (Scudder wrote in code), and finds that the plot is even more sinister than Scudder led on. Thinking the police would not believe he was innocent, Hannay becomes a man on the run, pursued under false pretenses by the police and evil anarchists. One day Hannay arrives to the flat to find it ransacked and Scudder dead with a knife in the back. Scudder writes down the whole plot in a black note book. Hannay allows the man to stay in his flat to hide out. Richard Hannay's ordinary life is shattered when he receives a frantic visitor, Scudder, who tells Hannay of a sinister plot by anarchists to assassinate the Greek Premier. Told from the first-person point of view, it relates the adventure of "ordinary fellow" Richard Hannay, who is thrust into a plot involving the theft of crucial military intelligence by German anarchists. The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure spy novel by John Buchan written in 1914.
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