Greenmantle - John Buchan - Bog

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay. Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war. It is November, 1915. Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, 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. 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.