Greenmantle (Collector's Library) - Hardcover

John Buchan

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9781905716531: Greenmantle (Collector's Library)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905716532 ISBN 13: 9781905716531

Publisher: CRW Publishing Limited, 2009

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Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley.Following his adventures foiling the plans of the Black Stone gang in "The Thirty-Nine Steps", Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. 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.As well as being a gripping adventure story, "Greenmantle" is surprisingly modern in the concept of using a Jihad to mobilise Muslim forces, and is disturbingly relevant to the modern world.

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Review:

'Readers who fancy another look at John Buchan's originals, with their matchless suspense and gormless opinions, can find new editions ... in Oxford World's Classics.'Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman & Society

'An exciting First World War thriller.'Observer

Book Description:

'Maybe GREENMANTLE should be a set book for our security services,' wrote Allan Massie in the Economist about John Buchan's finest novel, and one of the finest novels of the 20th Century

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