About the book: 1927 / 1914. Richard Hannay, having earned a huge fortune in Africa, returns to his homeland in England. One day he meets his neighbor, who claims that he is on the trail of a spy organization plotting to kill the Greek Prime Minister Karolides and steal the military secrets of the British Empire. A neighbor is killed under mysterious circumstances in Hannay's apartment. Now Richard is being pursued not only by the police, but also by spies from the secret organization “Black Stone”. One of the first works in the “spy thriller” genre in the history of English literature, the novel was first filmed in 1935 by the great Alfred Hitchcock.