Huntingtower ~ Paperback ~ John Buchan

After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in the First World War. * * * An old man, taking what may become the last walking tour of his life. . . . A young man who's a poet and a war hero, touring the countryside on foot after convalescing from the wounds he took on the front during the first world war. . . . A romantic, isolated, and forboding castle on the Scottish seacoast. . . . A Russian princess and the men who've kidnapped her. . . . It's a recipe for a recipe for romance and adventure, John Buchan style. Buchan was one of the best writers of this sort of thriller during the first half of the 20th Century; if you haven't read him, you're in for a real treat.