{"product_id":"leithen-stories","title":"Leithen Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to the\u003cbr\u003eauthor's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer and\u003cbr\u003eMP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium of\u003cbr\u003erespectability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In The Power House he is forced by event and accident to see civilisation as a thin veneer over the human jungle; in John Macnab he makes his own adventure by playing the poacher; in Sick Heart River, seeking a lost friend he meets death and redemption in the wastes of Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach book contrasts with the others; each pulls us into Buchan's world and holds us there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54224790126936,"sku":"9780862419950","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780862419950__6773badaeca7e.jpg?v=1741161412","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/leithen-stories","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}