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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20000814
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EDWARD Leithen was never the most popular of Buchan's protagonists, coming well behind both Richard Hannay and Dickson McCunn. But he was Buchan's first hero and his last, and the one closest in character to him.

This paperback handily reprints all four Leithen novels, though sadly it does not have any of the short stories in which he features.

The Power-House was Buchan's first "shocker", modelled on the work of E Phillips Oppenheim, and published in Blackwood's in 1913; Leithen combats a mysterious criminal organisation led by a sinister genius, Mr Lumley, without ever leaving England. It's ...

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