Greenmantle

Description

In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border toface their enemies: the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem.

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I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram. It was at Furling, the big country house in Hampshire where I had come to convalesce after Loos, and Sandy, who was in the same case, was hunting for the marmalade. I flung him the flimsy with the blue strip pasted down on it, and he whistled.

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Other Editions

• GreenmantleeBookeBooksLib2005-01-01
• GreenmantleMicroformHodder and Stoughton1916-01-01
• GreenmantleHodder and Stoughton1916-01-01
• GreenmantleT. Nelson1917-01-01
• Greenmantle (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)PaperbackWordsworth Editions Ltd1998-04-01
• GreenmantlePaperbackKessinger Publishing2004-06-30