The Island of Sheep
by John Buchan
In this adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hanney becomes involved in one of the most dangerous escapes of his life. Two men have the honor of helping the tired Waldemar Haraldsen, and the third decides to start the whole event with a love of adventure and dislike of bad guys. Richard Hanney's long-forgotten promise is that he must dignify the brutal blood feud in which the lives of a young father and daughter are at stake from unscrupulous and helpless men. Hanne embarks on a high-octane chase from the rural serenity of English property to the Scottish borders and eventually to Scandinavia. On the remote Island of Sheep, the final confrontation takes place and everything is decided - once and for all. This is the last of Hannay's adventures – and the last of Buchan's novels published during his lifetime – a rare jewel of high drama intertwined with Buchan's personal beliefs about the problems of the postwar world.
