Greenmantle

Greenmantle is John Buchans second novel featuring the character of Richard Hannay and was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Greenmantle is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, Mr Standfast (1919) being the other. Hannays most famous adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set just after the war. The chapters of this book include: A Mission is Proposed, The Gathering of the Missionaries, Peter Pienaar, Adventures of Two Dutchmen on the Loose, Further Adventures of the Same, The Indiscretions of the Same, Christmastide, The Essen Barges, et cetera. We are republishing this vintage book now complete with a new biography of the author.