Greenmantle continues the thrilling adventures of Richard
Hannay. The story takes Hannay from convalescence following the
Battle of Loos, back to London for a vital meeting at the Foreign
Office and thence on a top-secret mission across war-torn
German-occupied Europe.
His mission; to neutralise and destroy a cunning and potentially
devastating plot to foment Holy War in the Islarnic Near East,
which could ignite a powder-keg and shake the balance of world
power and the course of war. Hannay is assisted by three intrepid
companions:the suave, dashing, exotic and devastatingly romantic
Sandy Arbuthnot, the American-John Scantlebury Blenkiron, and the
South African Boer Scout-Peter Pienaar.
In Greenmantle John Buchan clearly asserts his mastery of the
genre of the espionage thriller, by drawing on his wide first-hand
knowledge of the worlds of politics and secret intelligence.