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A Lost Lady of Old Years by John Buchan
Category: Fiction
Once described as 'a tale of adventure and betrayal on the long bloody road to Culloden Moor', A Lost Lady of Old Years is set in Scotland during the Rebellion of '45. Young Edinburgh-born Francis Birkenshaw cares nothing for the Jacobite cause until an encounter with the beautiful wife of Bonnie Prince ...Show more
Collins Classics: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold sweat.' When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potent ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Richard Hannay Adventures Ser.
With an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Richard Hannay is tasked to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and takes off on a hair-raising journey through German-occupied Europe to meet up with his old friend Sandy Arbuthnot in Constantinople, where they must thwart the Germans' pl ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Category: B FORMAT MULTIBUY SPECIALS
It is 1915. Richard Hannay is convalescing from wounds received fighting in France when he is approached by Sir Walter Bullivant of British Intelligence. Bullivant's son has been working undercover in the Middle East. The Germans with their Turkish Allies are planning to stir up a revolt in the Muslim w ...Show more
Greenmantle by Kate (EDT) John; MacDonald Buchan
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
"Greenmantle" is a spy novel written by John Buchan and published in 1916. Set during World War One, "Greenmantle" is the second of the 5-book series of the Richard Hannay novels which immediately follow "The thirty-nine steps", set a few months before the beginning of the war. In "Greenmantle", Richard ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
"Greenmantle" continues the thrilling adventures of Richard Hannay from convalescence following the Battle of Loos, back to London for a vital meeting at the Foreign Office and thence on a top-secret mission across war-torn German-occupied Europe. His mission; to neutralise and destroy a cunning and pot ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan (The Surgery, Powys)
Category: Fiction
Sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps and precursor to Mr. Standfast, Greenmantle is a classic espionage and adventure novel set during The Great War, featuring the reckless Richard Hannay. Tasked with unraveling a mysterious message, Hannay travels through Germany and the Middle East, searching for the elusi ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
In "Greenmantle" (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of "The Thirty-Nine Steps", travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Category: Classic | Series: Collector's Library
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, cli ...Show more
Greenmantle (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A cryptic message launches Major Richard Hannay into another adventure of intrigue, espionage, and danger. Setting out across war-torn Europe, and travelling to the heart of the Middle East, Hannay and his friends Sandy Arbuthnot, Peter Pienaar, and John S. Blenkiron must penetrate enemy lines, quell a ...Show more
HUNTINGTOWER by BUCHAN JOHN
Category: Fiction
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held pri ...Show more