John Buchan's first full-length work of fiction. John Burnet and Captain Gilbert Burne are two young nobleman, one the heir to the house of Barns the last in a long line of Border reivers the other a dashing, ruthless soldier. Their lifelong rivalry leads to treachery, betrayal and murder. This classic works, originally published in 1898, is here being republished together with a new introductory biography of the author.