Greenmantle (Annotated‪)‬

Greenmantle is the second of five books by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 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.


Hannay is called in to investigate suspicions of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet 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.


This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents.  It has also been annotated, with additional information about The Thirty Nine Steps as well as John Buchan, including an overview, plot introduction, plot summary, characters, literary significance, allusions, trivia, and biographical information.