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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20070804
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Byline: JIM MCBETH

IN 1914, as the Great War was preparing to envelop the world, JohnBuchan was convalescing from illness, a duodenal ulcer that would torment himhis entire life. To pass the time, the scholar, barrister, publisher, poet,novelist, historian and colonial administrator indulged a passion for whatAmericans called the dime novel.

Enforced inactivity had exhausted Buchans stash of lurid tales of spies thatstretched the incredulity of readers to breaking point but drove themrelentlessly to the last page and its utterly improbable denouement.

Buchan, then ...

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