Greenmantle
Book 2 of Richard Hannay
Language: English
Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction Richard Hannay (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Spy stories War stories World War Year: 1914-1918 -- Fiction _sort
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: Mar 1, 2019
Description:
The story of a chase through war-torn Europe to prevent an uprising during the First World War.
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Greenmantle is the second of John Buchan’s novels to feature Richard Hannay, a Scottish intelligence office in the British army, and as such is the sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps.
The book gives the account of Hannay and his associate’s separate journeys through war-torn Europe to Constantinople to thwart an uprising that is poised to throw the Middle East, India, and North Africa into disarray, changing the course of the war.
The book was popular when first published and although it has never been made into a film, the director Alfred Hitchcock was said to prefer Greenmantle to The Thirty-Nine Steps, and considered filming it on several occasions.