Mr. Standfast by John Buchan, Fiction (Hardcover)

from Roarer

Mr Standfast has probably not stood the test of time. After a while the scrapes Richard Hannay encounters seem repetitive, and the reappearance of the main characters in various far-flung places made me remember Brenda from Bristol's celebrated comment, "You;'re joking - not another one!" I fear ...

from Lirmac

Confused between being a war story and an adventure story, Mr Standfast lacks the compelling plot and page-turning suspense that characterised the first two Hannay books.

from ngmcd

I first read this book many years ago when I was in secondary school. Over the course of a few months, I bought the five Richard Hannay adventures. Reading them the first time was enjoyable but they didn't leave much of an impact. I've started reading them again and after the break of a few years...

from antiquary

This is the third in the Richard Hannay series; frankly, to me it is well below the level of The Thirty Nine Steps and Greenmantle, but they are so high on my personal list that even so it still fairly good. it chiefly set in Britani, where Hannay pretends to be an anti-war man to get a line on a...

from nina.jon

Written in a style typical of its time. Despite its length, this is a very fast-paced adventure, full of derring do's with a heroic protagonist and a happy, although somewhat convoluted ending. Classic good versus evil, in a wartime setting, with a leading man who is always a gentleman, yet can f...