Greenmantle
Greenmantle
By: John Buchan
A sequel to Buchan’s classic The Thirty-Nine Steps, this novel follows Richard Hannay during World War I as he is called in to investigate rumors of a German plot to create an uprising in the Muslim world against British rule. With two friends and a dyspeptic American he undertakes a perilous undercover journey through German territory to Constantinople and the Turkish front lines to learn the details of the German plan and to try to stop it.
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John Buchan
John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who also served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. His best-known novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) features his favorite character, the mining engineer and soldier-turned-spy Richard Hannay, who appears as the major character in four other novels.
