John Macnab (Summarized Edition)

John Macnab is an interwar Highland caper: three distinguished but jaded friends, adopting the collective pseudonym "John Macnab," challenge nearby estates to stop them as they sportingly poach a stag or salmon under self-imposed rules of fair play. Buchan turns his shocker's pace to pastoral-comic ends, mixing hillcraft and fly-water with courtroom wit and country-house intrigue. Crisp prose, dry...