GREENMANTLE (Spy Thriller) (Annotated)

John Buchan's Greenmantle (1916) is a briskly plotted spy thriller that sends Richard Hannay from wartime London through Germany, the Balkans, and Constantinople in pursuit of a rumored Islamic uprising engineered by Britain's enemies. Combining adventure romance, imperial geopolitics, and early espionage fiction, Buchan writes in a taut, episodic style marked by disguises, coded clues, hazardous ...