Greenmantle (Paperback)

from neurodrew

Greenmantle John Buchan April 10, 2011 This is a rollicking yarn, spy mystery, and adventure, set in WW1. The hero, Richard Hannay, is tasked to leave his battalion in France to undertake a difficult mission in Germany and Turkey, heading off a plan of the German general staff to rise up a muslim...

from ctpress

A good adventure story and espionage thriller. Again we find Richard Hannay from "The Thirty-Nine Steps" on the run - this time not in Scotland running from the police and central intelligence - but on the run as an undercover agent in Germany. He and his three fellow spies set out to get behind ...

from raizel

It felt to me that most of the action was with the other characters, not featured in this book. And this felt like the target audience was young men. Some quotes I found interesting: SPOILER "Women have got a perilous logic which we never have, and some of the best of them don't see the joke of ...

from CarltonC

This was an uneven book for me. I know it is not about characterisation, but the Blenkiron character did not work in this book for me, although I enjoyed his personality. I do not know whether that was Buchan trying to get the Americans "on board" (as part of the war effort), but Blenkiron felt a...

from Meredy

Six-word review: Another improbable pulp adventure with charm. Extended review: Escapism has its own appeal, and an author who knows exactly what he's doing makes for a safe escape. Buchan does not pretend to be writing literature, although his own literary background shows. He's writing entertai...