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The Courts of the Morning
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
Sir Richard Hannay introduces this last adventure involving his old friends.
John Blenkiron discovers that a ruthless industrialist is plotting to destabilise America and cause global turmoil. Although Bavarian born, Castor plans to dominate the world from Olifa, a small country in Latin America.
Hannay realises he is now too old for the job of thwarting these evil designs and enlists the aid of his old friend Sandy Arbuthnot, now Lord Clanroyden. Fortunately, Sir Archibald Roylance and his wife, Janet, are honeymooning in Olifa and are able to lend a hand. Sandy decides that revolution is the way forward, and Buchan draws on his experience of the tactics of the Boers in South Africa to describe the action of the campaign. Also, the villain is captured, and Janet is instrumental in effecting his ideological change but at great cost.
The novel was published in 1929. It is unlikely to be a coincidence that in the same year, American financial markets collapsed, giving another Bavarian national, who had been abusing his people, the opportunity to consolidate his power in Germany and, ultimately, make his insane bid for world domination.
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- Sukebind
- 11-01-23
Part of the canon but not Buchan’s best
Castor - before he is redeemed - put me in mind of a certain Klaus Schwab of WEF ill fame so the fact our heroes went to such great lengths to rehabilitate him and almost hero worshipped him was a bit hard to swallow. There were surely far easier ways to rid the Grand Seco of its tyrannical and antihuman leader? Ok they baulked at assassinating one man because of their scruples but surely that would have been more expedient and humane than the thousands sacrificed in the rather silly war that followed?
Not Buchan’s best as it rambles and gets bogged down in unnecessary detail but if you are a fan of Buchan and the Hannay stories in particular you need to read it as the Olifa adventure is reference a lot in The Isle of Sheep and one of the main baddies in it is a character from The Courts. The Isle of Sheep - a cracking good romp anyway - makes more sense if you’ve read The Courts. So be a good chap, take your medicine and read the darned book?!
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- Mr
- 04-10-18
Buchan's tactical stories are rather better.
A fun story, clearly influenced by the Great War.
A little clunkily narrated, but a good listen.
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- Derrick
- 24-09-18
Not vintage Buchan
Like so many Buchan novels, this draws upon a small band of intrepid heroes who orbit around Richard Hannay, who provides the foreword to this adventure. However, that is the limit of his involvement in a story which takes place in the interwar period in a fictional South American country, but has lots of characteristics of Argentina and Chile.
With Sandy Arbuthnot (of Greenmantle fame) and the American speculator Blenkiron in tow, the story promises much but is strangely lifeless. It centres on a rebellion inspired and led by Arbuthnot, but almost all the real action happens off-stage, a bit like many of the battles in Shakespeare and is reported by characters who run on breathlessly to tell their news. There are a few set-pieces which are quite gripping, but this is not one of Buchan's best, and it is small wonder that it has fallen into relative obscurity.
For Buchan aficionados only, I feel.
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- Kindle Customer
- 27-09-22
Boring long winded
Constant reference to every character in the book instead of an actual story line with a plot.
Such a boring book I could not finish reading.
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