The second of John Buchans five books with the Richard Hannay character is titled Greenmantle. Londons Hodder & Stoughton published it for the first time in 1916. The other Hannay book set during the Great War is Mr. Standfast (1919). The ThirtyNine Steps (1915), Hannays earliest and bestknown adventure, takes place in the years just before the war. Hannay travels through dangerous enemy territory to see his friend Sandy in Constantinople after being asked to look into reports of an insurrection in the Muslim world. Once there, he and his companions must foil German efforts to exploit religion as a weapon of victory, which will culminate in the battle of Erzurum. Hannay and his friend Sandy are in the books opening scene recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Loos in November 1915. Senior intelligence officer Sir Walter Bullivant summons Hannay to the Foreign Office. Bullivant informs Hannay on the Middle Eastern political situation, implying that the Germans and their Turkish allies are planning to incite a Muslim rebellion that will destabilize the region as well as India and North Africa. Robert BadenPowell and the Russian imperial family both read the book when it was first released as they awaited the outcome of the revolution in 1917.

Binding: Paperback;232 pages; Publisher: Double 9 Books LLP; Classification: FA; Weight: 398 g; Dimensions: 215 x 142 x 14

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