<p>Recently retired, grocer Dickson McCunn decides to embark on a little walking tour in the Scottish Borders. Along the way he falls in with John Heritage, a young Englishman with a poet's heart. Together they become embroiled in a dangerous plot to kidnap an exiled Russian princess.<br>With the help of the local worthies and the Gorbals Die-Hards ? a plucky, resourceful gang of boys from Glasgow ? the two men attempt to frustrate the gang,...