His notable novels are The Thirty-nine Steps ( 1915 ), Greenmantle ( 1916 ) and sequels, all featuring the heroic Scotsman Richard Hannay.

Raffles ; Professor Challenger ; Richard Hannay ; Bulldog Drummond ; the evil Fu Manchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith ; G-8 ; The Shadow ; Sam Spade ; Doc Savage's cousin Patricia Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair ; The Spider ; Nero Wolfe ; Mr. Moto ; The Avenger ; Philip Marlowe ; James Bond ; Lew Archer ; Travis McGee ; Monsieur Lecoq ; and Arsène Lupin.

The novel featured Buchan's oft used hero, Richard Hannay, whose character was based on Edmund Ironside, a friend of Buchan from his days in South Africa.

In 1935, Buchan's literary work was adapted to the cinematic theatre with the completion of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered.

Robert Powell ( born 1 June 1944 ) is a British television and film actor, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay.

In 1978, Powell took the leading role of Richard Hannay in the third film version of The Thirty Nine Steps.

The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters ( e. g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond ), including James Bond in dramatised scenes from Goldfinger – notably featuring the hero being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam – and Diamonds Are Forever.

John Buchan was an admirer of Bunyan, and Pilgrim's Progress features significantly in his third Richard Hannay novel, Mr Standfast, which also takes its title from one of Bunyan's characters.

Richard Hannay flees London to lie low in Galloway in John Buchan's novel The Thirty-nine Steps.

* The Thirty-Nine Steps ( 1959 ) as Richard Hannay

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.

* Richard Hannay, stolid and resourceful soldier and occasional spy

The subsequent Richard Hannay novels of John Buchan are:

Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional secret agent and army officer created by Scottish novelist John Buchan.

Richard Hannay has been portrayed on screen in four versions of The Thirty Nine Steps by Robert Donat, Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones ( in a 2008 BBC production ), while Powell reprised the role for the ITV series Hannay ( 1988 – 1989 ).

As revealed through the various novels, Richard Hannay was born in Scotland about 1877 ; his father was Scottish and had German business partners.

Richard Hannay was one of the first modern spy thriller heroes and as such has heavily influenced the genre.

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

* Brigadier-General Richard Hannay, tough soldier and occasional spy

The subsequent Richard Hannay novels of John Buchan are:

In July 2008, Robards took over the role of Richard Hannay in the New York City theatrical run of The 39 Steps.

He has worked extensively on BBC radio drama including as Charles in the original radio series of Up the Garden Path opposite Imelda Staunton, as Captain Jack Aubrey in the BBC Radio 4 adaptations of the Patrick O ' Brian " Aubrey " novels and as Richard Hannay in several adaptations of the John Buchan novels, including Mr Standfast in 2007.

It identifies Mary Lamington, a young intelligence officer, who falls in love, mutually, with the hero of the novel, general Richard Hannay.

In terms of the detective genre, the first Bulldog Drummond novel was published after the Sherlock Holmes stories, the Nayland Smith / Fu Manchu novels and Richard Hannay's first three adventures including The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Soon after the conference, Archbishop John Whitgift died and the anti-Puritan Richard Bancroft, who had argued against the Puritans at Hampton Court, was appointed to the See of Canterbury, the King's fears led to demands that Puritan ministers adhere to each of the Thirty-Nine Articles.

* " Business Continuity Plan Design, 8 Steps for Getting Started Designing a Plan " By Richard Kepenach

The Blind Bishop's Steps, a series of steps leading along Castle Street up to the Castle, were originally constructed for Bishop Richard Foxe ( godfather of Henry VIII ).

He feels good about the results of an initial session with Dr. Leo Marvin ( Richard Dreyfuss ), a New York psychiatrist with a huge ego, but is immediately left on his own with a copy of Leo ’ s new book, Baby Steps, when the doctor goes on vacation to Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.

Steps Toward Restoration: The Consequences of Richard Weaver's Ideas.

His theatre credits include David Marshall Grant's Snakebit ( Off-Broadway at the Century Center and in Los Angeles at the Coast Playhouse ), South Coast Repertory ( Noises Off, Taking Steps, The Real Thing ), The Antaeus Company ( Peace In Our Time, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8: 30, Sinan Unel's Pera Palas ), Black Dahlia Theatre ( Jonathan Tolins ' Secrets of the Trade, Richard Kramer's Theater District, both directed by Matt Shakman ), The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble ( Bach at Leipzig, Small Tragedy ), L. A. Theatre Works ( The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial ), and Pasadena Playhouse ( If Memory Serves ).

Richard Crashaw wrote a metaphysical stanza for his Steps to the Temple in 1646 entitled, " Upon Lazarus His Tears ":

* The Seven Steps of Spiritual Intelligence by Richard A. Bowell, Boston, Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2004 ISBN 1-85788-344-6.

The Drukken Steps in the Eglinton Woods of North Ayrshire in Scotland were a favourite haunt of the renowned poet Robert Burns, and his companion Richard Brown, whilst the two were living in Irvine from 1781 to 1782.

He played Richard Hannay in the BBC adaptation of The 39 Steps which was screened at Christmas 2008.

* Richard J. Aldrich, GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency, HarperCollins July 2010.

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

* Aldrich, Richard J .; GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency, HarperCollins, July 2010.

The college's current master, Sir Richard Dearlove, was previously the head of the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service.

JIC members John Scarlett and Sir Richard Dearlove ( then head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service ) gave evidence to the Inquiry in which they argued that the words used in the dossier were consistent with their assessment of the intelligence available at the time.

* Nemesvari ( 1995 ), Richard, ‘ Robert Audley ’ s Secret: Male Homosocial Desire in Lady Audley ’ s Secret ’, Studies in the Novel, XXVII: 515-28

According to Richard Wilhelm, Lü was the founder of the School of the Golden Elixir of Life ( Jin Dan Jiao ), and originator of the material presented in the book " Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi " (《 太一金華宗旨 》), or The Secret of the Golden Flower.

A recent study by Richard Stokes attested that much of the story concerning the involvement of Jasper Maskelyne in counterintelligence operations, as described in the books " White Magic " and " Magic: Top Secret ", was pure invention, and that no such unit christened " Magic Gang " ever existed.

In response, Dade and Kate decide to settle their disagreements with a hacking duel, with hacks focused on harassing Secret Service Agent Richard Gill ( Wendell Pierce ), a known enemy of hackers, who was involved in Joey's arrest.

* Wendell Pierce as Special Agent Richard Gill, U. S. Secret Service

* 1931 – Secret Service, Radio Pictures, directed by J. Walter Ruben with Richard Dix as Captain Thorne

** A Good and Secret Place by Richard Laymon

The Terrible Secret of Space is based on an internet meme that originated in an instant message prank run by the editor of the humor website Something Awful, Richard Kyanka.

* Trahair, Richard C. S. Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies and Secret Operations ( 2004 ), by an Australian scholar ; contains excellent historiographical introduction

* Deacon, Richard ( 1986 ), The Cambridge Apostles: a History of Cambridge University's Elite Intellectual Secret Society.

* In Richard Brightfield's Choose Your Own Adventure gamebook The Secret Treasure of Tibet, the protagonist aims to find a remote Tibetan monastery where monks have learned levitation.

* Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, by Richard C. S.

Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, KCMG, OBE ( born 23 January 1945 ) was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) from 1999 until 6 May 2004.

Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are United States Secret Service agents assigned as counterfeiting investigators in its Los Angeles field office.

* Deacon, Richard: A History of the Japanese Secret Service, Berkley Publishing Company, New York, 1983, ISBN 0-425-07458-7

Richard Tomlinson ( born 13 January 1963 ) is a New Zealand-born British former MI6 officer who was imprisoned during 1997 for violating the Official Secrets Act 1989 by giving the synopsis of a proposed book detailing his career in the Secret Intelligence Service to an Australian publisher.

* Richard J. Griffin ( 2005 – 2007 ), a former Secret Service Agent and former Inspector General of the Veteran's Administration.

At that time there was an order signed by President Richard Nixon also giving this authority to the U. S. Secret Service ( USSS ), which has protected heads of state ever since.

President Richard Blake's helicopter crashes after its rotors freeze and the President, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense and the White House Chief of Staff along with other staffers and Secret Service agents die from hypothermia as a result of the helicopter crash.