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Main characters:
Richard Hannay: the main character who has to prevent a war between
Russia and Germany
Paddock: the servant of Hannay
Franklin P. Scudder: a man who asks Hannay to help him to prevent the war
Jopley: an old enemy of Hannay because he sets people off.
Sir Walter: a friend of Scudder who also prevents the war.
Outline
Richard Hannay is reading the newspaper, as he does every evening. After his reading in his club he returns to his house. Hannay is a little sick of life because he thinks his life is boring. He really looks for adventure but can’t find it. When he puts his key into the door a man was standing besides him. He acts very strange and secret. But Hannay let’s him in. Then the man tells Hannay a strange story. He tells Hannay that there’s an underground movement is going on against the government. That underground movement wanted to cause a quarrel between Russia and Germany, the man who wrecked there plans (Constantine Karolides) would soon be killed. And that would cause the quarrel. They had to prevent it……. After he told all this to Hannay. He said that he knows too much and that the underground movement knows that. That’s why they try to kill him. He contained a dead body and dressed it in his clothes, after this he disappeared, to let that movement think that he was already dead. And it worked, but not for long: when Richard comes back from a dinner the next day, he found Scudder with a knife in his chest on the ground………. He had to carry out his work. Someway he has to tell the government all this. At this time Hannay makes a clever move, he realized that the movement already knows him, and when he got out the door they would kill him. So he asked the milkman to change clothes and to stay here for 10 minutes. In that 10 minutes, he went to the station, get his clothes of and Paddock called the police. He has three jobs now, first to keep alive, second to prevent the police found him, and last to prevent Constantine to be murdered. Hannay has arrived in Galloway by train. He starts to walk north. After a long walk he reaches a...








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