Greenmantle

<p><i>Greenmantle</i> is the second of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-buchan">John Buchan’s</a> novels to feature Richard Hannay, a Scottish intelligence office in the British army, and as such is the sequel to <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-buchan/the-thirty-nine-steps"><i>The Thirty-Nine Steps</i></a>.</p>
<p>The book gives the account of Hannay and his associate’s separate journeys through war-torn Europe to Constantinople to thwart an uprising that is poised to throw the Middle East, India, and North Africa into disarray, changing the course of the war.</p>
<p>The book was popular when first published and although it has never been made into a film, the director Alfred Hitchcock was said to prefer <i>Greenmantle</i> to <i>The Thirty-Nine Steps</i>, and considered filming it on several occasions.</p>