Greenmantle

John Buchan

2013년 11월 · Les Editions de Londres

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John Buchan’s "Greenmantle" is a 1916 adventure and espionage novel. In this second book of the Richard Hannay series (following The Thirty-Nine steps), Hannay is called to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant at the beginning of the story. His mission: thwart German plans to wreak havoc in the Near East and Middle East through religious uprising. Hannay will gather his friends, and together they will travel to the Bosphorus, and fight bigger than life characters along the way. Discover Greenmantle with its original preface and biography in this new edition by Les Éditions de Londres.

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John Buchan est né en 1875 en Écosse. Après des études de droit à Oxford, il mène de front carrière politique et écriture. Il est successivement directeur de l’information dans le cabinet de Lloyd George pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, puis gouverneur général du Canada en 1935. Tour à tour romancier, journaliste, biographe, historien, il a laissé derrière lui une 1⁄2uvre imposante. Ce sont ses romans d’aventure qui l’ont rendu célèbre. Il crée le personnage de Richard Hannay, le héros des Trente-Neuf marches, modèle de l’espion moderne.