The three meet, ponder their clues, and head to Constantinople. Bullivant says that American John Blenkiron will be useful. Bullivant proposes that Hannay investigate the rumours, following a clue left on a slip of paper with the words "Kasredin", "cancer" and "v.I" written by Bullivant's son, a spy recently killed in the region.ĭespite misgivings, Hannay accepts the challenge, and picks Sandy to help him. Bullivant briefs Hannay on the political situation in the Middle East, suggesting that the Germans and their Turkish allies are plotting to create a Muslim uprising, that will throw the Middle East, India and North Africa into turmoil. 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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