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Greenmantle
- 252 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1916
- 521 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
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 toface their enemies: the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem.
Good for readers who want: spy fiction, a mystery, and a book they can read free online.
- Thrillers, espionage
- Mystery
- Classics
- Espionage
- Spy stories
- Great britain
- World War I
- War & military
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