slytherclaw
Written on Jul 12, 2015
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 to face their enemies - the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem. In this classic espionage adventure Buchan shows his mastery of the thriller and the Stevensonian romance, and also his enormous knowledge of world politics before and during the First World War. This edition illuminates for the first time the many levels beneath the stirring plot and romantic characters. This book is intended for general public, war historians, students on Scottish literature courses.
- ISBN10 1434484017
- ISBN13 9781434484017
- Publish Date 1 September 2007 (first published December 1937)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wildside Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 392
- Language English
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