Mr. Standfast
About 14 hours to listen to — 128,241 words, read aloud by a clear computer voice. It keeps playing with the screen locked, and works offline once the voice has downloaded.
"Mr. Standfast" by John Buchan is a novel published in 1919. Brigadier-General Richard Hannay is pulled from the Western Front for a dangerous secret mission: hunting a German spy network operating in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, he must work undercover to track enemy agents across the country and into the Swiss Alps.
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Topics: Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction · Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction · Spy stories · War stories · World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
