From a book categorized as Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage and 128 pages follows a description and a number of hidden haikus found in the book:
This carefully crafted ebook: “THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (Spy Thriller Classic)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. “I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick . . .” (Extract) Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is a character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and based on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. In this adventure espionage classic Richard Hannay is buttonholed by an American stranger who knows of an anarchist plot to assassinate the Greek Premier during his forthcoming visit to London. It is now up to Hannay to save the day and stop Europe from destabilising. John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies. But, the most famous of his books were the adventure and spy thrillers and it is for these that he is now best remembered.
Someone must have been
searching for something--perhaps
for the pocket-book.
I saw that main roads
were no place for me, and turned
into the byways.
There was nothing but
short heather, and bare hill bent,
and the white highway.
he said pleasantly.
'I back our Kenner any
day against the Test.
His whimsical blue
eyes seemed to go very deep.
Suddenly he frowned.
They were all on me
at once, and the policeman
took me in the rear.
Happily there were
few people about and no
one tried to stop me.
As it spoke I saw
two of my fellows emerge
on the moonlit lawn.