Greenmantle (Oxford World's Classics)
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In Greenmantle (1916), a classic tale of espionage and adventure, Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe on the trail 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--a character modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. Together they move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border in order to face their enemies: the grotesque Stumm and the evil femme
fatale 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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Greenmantle (Oxford World's Classics),John Buchan,Kate Macdonald,Oxford University Press, USA,0192836846,Classics,Espionage/Intrigue,Fiction,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,War & Military,Adventure / thriller,Fiction / Classics,First World War fiction,Literature/English | British Literature | 20th C,Modern fiction
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