John Buchan

The Three Hostages Annotated John Buchan

The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels by Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1924 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Hannay had previously appeared in The Thirty Nine Steps 1915, his most famous adventure in which he battles German spies across England and Scotland, and two books about his activities during the First World War, Greenmantle 1916 and Mr Standfast 1919.