The Power-House E-Book

John Buchan

• Herausgeber: Ktoczyta.pl
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Edward Leithen is a young British lawyer who learns that one of his Oxford contemporaries, Charles Pitt-Heron, has just disappeared. Leithen learns from Pitt-Heron’s wife that he has been forced to flee. But a series of strange events that follow Pitt-Heron’s disappearance convinces Leithen that he is dealing with a sinister secret society. His suspicions begin to center on a wealthy, well-known, and intelligent businessman, who reveals himself to Leithen as an ardent anarchist. The barrister finds himself the target of many „watchers”, and then, as his understanding of the conspiracy involving the „Power House” grows, he is trapped and chased unrelentingly. The Author, despite being very busy in Public Service, wrote over fifty books during his life but his particular talent was for writing fast-moving adventure stories. „The Power-House”, a good example of this genre, was published in 1916.

Leseprobe

Contents

DEDICATION

I. BEGINNING OF THE WILD-GOOSE CHASE

II. I FIRST HEAR OF MR ANDREW LUMLEY

III. TELLS OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT

IV. I FOLLOW THE TRAIL OF THE SUPER-BUTLER

V. I TAKE A PARTNER

VI. THE RESTAURANT IN ANTIOCH STREET

VII. I FIND SANCTUARY

VIII. THE POWER-HOUSE

IX. RETURN OF THE WILD GEESE

DEDICATION

TO MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FRANCIS LLOYD, K.C.B.

My Dear General,

A recent tale of mine has, I am told, found favour in the dug-outs and billets of the British front, as being sufficiently short and sufficiently exciting for men who have little leisure to read. My friends in that uneasy region have asked for more. So I have printed this story, written in the smooth days before the war, in the hope that it may enable an honest man here and there to forget for an hour the too urgent realities, I have put your name on it, because among the many tastes which we share one is a liking for precipitous yarns.

J.B.