Greenmantle

ISBN-13: 9780199537853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str.

John Buchan

Opis

In Greenmantle (1916), a classic tale of espionage and adventure, Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe on the trail 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 Sandy Arbuthnot--Greenmantle himself--a character modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. Together they move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border in order to face their enemies: the grotesque Stumm and the evil femme fatale Hilda von Einem.
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Recenzje

'An exciting First World War thriller.' Observer

O autorze

John Buchan (1875-1940), presbyterianischer Pfarrerssohn aus Schottland. Parlamentsmitglied, Freund T. E. Lawrences, Kriegsberichterstatter der 'Times', Chef des britischen geheimen Nachrichtendienstes im Ersten Weltkrieg, Generalgouverneur von Kanada und erhielt das Adelsprädikat eines 'ersten Lord Tweedsmuir'. Veröffentlichung zahlreicher historischer Werke, darunter eine Biographie über Oliver Cromwell.