John Macnab

Written in 1925, the novel opens with three gentleman friends - lawyer Sir Edward Leithen, banker John Palliser-Yeates, and Cabinet member Charles Lord Lamancha - discovering that they all suffer a common and debilitating malady, a loss of zest for life, all desperate to relieve the ennui that has engulfed them. The solution can only be something devilish, with a dash of daring. Enlisting the aid of another friend, Scottish landowner Sir Archibald Roylance, the trio contrives a plot to poach game - deer or salmon - from the hereditary lands of three of Archie-s Highland neighbors under the guise of an assumed false identity, -John Macnab.- On this, they stake their reputations and the danger proves innervating. This novel is a light interlude within the -Leithen Stories- series - an evocative look at the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.