Edward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to the author's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer and MP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium of respectability. This collection of four novels, written over a span of 30 years, shows Leith/Buchan in all his moods. In *The Power House* he is forced by event and accident to see civilization as a thin veneer over the human jungle, in *John Macnab* he makes his own adventure by playing the poacher, in Sick *Heart River* he meets death and redemption in the wastes of Canada. Introduced by Christopher Harvie.
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Edward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to the author's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer and MP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium of
respectability. This collection of four novels, written over a span of 30 years, shows Leith/Buchan in all his moods. In *The Power House* he is forced by event and accident to see civilization as a thin veneer over the human jungle, in *John Macnab* he makes his own adventure by playing the poacher, in Sick *Heart River* he meets death and redemption in the wastes of Canada. Introduced by Christopher Harvie.
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