Mr. Standfast

Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. It was first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.

It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War. The other being Greenmantle (1916). Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set directly before the war started.

The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. The story goes on to include novel multiple other references too. For example, Hannay uses a copy of Pilgrim's Progress to decipher coded messages from his contacts and letters from his friend Peter Pienaar.

For its pace and suspense, its changes of scene and thrilling descriptions of the last primary battles against the Germans, Mr Standfast offers everything that has made its author so popular.