8.15.2024

Thirty-Nine Steps review


 

I reread this John Buchan short story, as my wife is staging it as a play.

 

What hit me is how spycraft is mainly about confidence in what you know to be true.  If you don’t trust your view of things, you’ll get played by the other side.  That's a SPIRITUAL lesson, people.

 

It’s a fast-moving flip from one scene to the next.  The main character Hannay changes identities as quickly and deftly.  Written between the world wars, it is instructive in its “out of date-ness.”

 

Recommended reading.

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