![]() ![]() Sir Walter Bullivant, a senior intelligence officer, summons Hannay to the Foreign Office. The book opens in November 1915, with Hannay and his friend Sandy convalescing from wounds received at the Battle of Loos. ![]() ![]() Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum. Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919) Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war. It was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character Richard Hannay. ![]()
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