Lewis Haystoun has every talent and no conviction. In Glenavelin, among Lady Manorwater’s guests, he loses ground in love to a political go-getter, and the second half of the novel takes him to the north-west frontier of India where he must finally act with his whole heart.
Buchan’s first contemporary novel, an early sketch of the heroes to come; its imperial outlook is that of 1900. Download the free EPUB.