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Greenmantle

Author
John Buchan
Series
Classic Sensation
Language
English
Length
230 pages
ISBN
9781910558409
Published
15 October 2014
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • John Buchan
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • detective
  • shocking
  • spy
  • murder
  • forgery
  • seduction

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Hannay is summoned to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant, a senior intelligence man, whom Hannay met and assisted in The 39 Steps. Bullivant gives Hannay an outline of the political situation in the Middle East, and hints that the Germans and their Turkish allies are plotting to cause a great uprising throughout the Muslim world, that will throw the whole of the Middle East, India and North Africa into turmoil; Bullivant proposes that Hannay takes on the task of investigating rumours.

Author

John Buchan was a Scottish novelist, historian and political leader who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. Buchan's 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories, and biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Caesar Augustus, and Oliver Cromwell. Buchan is considered a pioneer of thriller and suspense genre in English literature.

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