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|title=Huntingtower

|author=John Buchan

|borrow=Maybe

|isbn=9781846972232

|pages=256

|publisher=Polygon

|date=July 2012

|summary=A further rerelease from the estate of John Buchan's Scottish-set thrillers, this featuring a captured Russian princess in need of rescue.

}}

Dickson McCunn is on his travels through rural Scotland when he meets a man he doesn't warm to at first, by the name of John Heritage. They are quite chalk and cheese – McCunn an older man, who has only just sold up his very well-known Glasgow grocery shop and made this trip his first steps into retirement on a complete whim. Heritage is younger, English, and a soldier. McCunn seems the old Romantic, Heritage modern poetry in contrast. But when they meet up it's at the edge of the Huntingtower estate, a coastal country house, guarded by suspicious landlords turning guests away and unfriendly foreign types, and found to contain a young beauty who just happens to be the love of Heritage's life, since they met a few years previous. She is being coerced into staying against her will, but lo and behold – the cynical Heritage can come over all chivalrous and try and rescue her – with desperate consequences for both men…

For a very different, modern look at females immediately after the Russian Revolution, we recommend [[The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne]]. We have also digested several entrants in the [[:Category:John Buchan|Buchan oeuvre]].

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