num_pages: 320
description: 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 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 the grotesque Stumm and the evil femmefatale Hilda von Einem.
language: English
title: Greenmantle
titlecomplete: Greenmantle (Richard Hannay, #2)
characters: Richard Hannay, Walter Bullivant, Hilda von Einem, John Blenkiron, Peter Pienaar, Herr Gaudian, Sandy Arbuthnot, Ulrich von Stumm, Rasta Bey
genres: Fiction, War, World War I, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Espionage
ratings_count: 4636
places: Istanbul, Constantinople, England, Turkey, Germany
series: Richard Hannay
publisher: Oxford University Press