Kidnapped

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Established the narrative of an innocent protagonist unjustly pursued across a wild landscape, relying on wit and allies for survival.

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A young Scottish orphan, David Balfour, is cheated out of his inheritance, kidnapped, and then escapes, becoming a fugitive across the Scottish Highlands with a Jacobite rebel. It's a tale of adventure, betrayal, and survival.

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The Thirty-Nine Steps· 1915↓ open

Kidnapped features an innocent young man, David Balfour, who is unjustly kidnapped and then becomes a fugitive, relentlessly pursued across the Scottish Highlands, a narrative structure and setting that directly prefigures aspects of Hannay's flight in The Thirty-Nine Steps.