I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant’s telegram. Four Missionaries See Light in Their Mission 13. Adventures of Two Dutchmen on the Loose 5. He has shaved his beard and joined the Flying Corps.Ģ. As for Peter, he has attained the height of his ambition. Blenkiron, full of honour and wholly cured of dyspepsia, has returned to the States, after vainly endeavouring to take Peter with him. Richard Hannay is where he longed to be, commanding his battalion on the ugliest bit of front in the West. That great spirit was last heard of at Basra, where he occupies the post that once was Harry Bullivant’s. The characters of the tale, if you think hard, you will recall. Some day, when the full history is written – sober history with ample documents – the poor romancer will give up business and fall to reading Miss Austen in a hermitage. Coincidence, like some new Briareus, stretches a hundred long arms hourly across the earth. The one chance in a thousand is habitually taken, and as often as not succeeds. Things unimagined before happen daily to our friends by sea and land. The war has driven that word from our vocabulary, and melodrama has become the prosiest realism. Let no man or woman call its events improbable. But it has amused me to write, and I shall be well repaid if it amuses you – and a few others – to read. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment – in England and abroad, during long journeys, in half-hours between graver tasks and it bears, I fear, the mark of its gipsy begetting. Mad, bad and very dangerous to know, she plans to use Greenmantle to further German imperial domination.During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. But Hannay discovers that Greenmantle has fallen under the spell of the beautiful Hilda von Einem. In 1915 the prophet Greenmantle is said to be preparing to lead a great Islamic army against the infidel English. Hannay's mission is to identify Greenmantle and destroy him.Ģ/2. Greenmantle - once a mythical figure, now made flesh - is preparing to lead a great Islamic army against the infidel English. In 1915 Richard Hannay is summoned to the War Office where he is told of an impending Holy War in the East. Tasked with unraveling a mysterious message,ġ/2. A classic espionage and adventure featuring the reckless Richard Hannay.

By John Buchan, dramatised by Patricia HannahĪ ripping yarn by any standards, Greenmantle is set across two action-packed months during the The Great War.

Greenmantle by john buchan