Greenmantle by John Buchan, Fiction, Espionage, Literary, War & Military, (Paperback)

from bcquinnsmom

I don't believe this was the case with this novel, but I can definitely visualize it as a serialization back in its day, with lots of cliffhangers and people fidgeting in their seats waiting for the next installment. Once it gets started, the action just doesn't let up, and I can remember thinkin...

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 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...

from jeffome

Overall, an OK yarn, but the geographic and political detail prevalent through out this tale revealed the fact that i apparently know absolutely nothing about the global relationships defining WWI!!! Now, that would be my fault; but holy cow, the name-dropping of people, places, historic relation...