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John Macnab (Unabridged)
John Buchan
出版e-artnow, 2018-12-21
主題Fiction / Action & AdventureFiction / Thrillers / Suspense
ISBN80272475949788027247592
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kaaSDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Three successful but bored friends in their mid-forties decide to turn to poaching. They are Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), and ex-Attorney General; John Palliser-Yeates, banker and sportsman; and Charles, Earl of Lamancha, former adventurer and present Conservative Cabinet Minister. Under the collective name of 'John Macnab', they set up in the Highland home of Sir Archie Roylance, a disabled war hero who wishes to be a Conservative MP. They issue a challenge to three of Roylance's neighbours: first the Radens, who are an old-established family, about to die out; next, the Bandicotts: an American archaeologist and his son, who are renting a grand estate for the summer; and lastly the Claybodys, vulgar, bekilted nouveaux riches. These neighbours are forewarned that 'John Macnab' will poach a salmon or a stag from their land and return it to them undetected...