![]() ![]() ![]() I always argue that Greenmantle is the best of Buchan's "shockers", better by far than the even more famous The Thirty-Nine Steps, the predecessor in his quartet of "Richard Hannay" adventures. It seems a long way, and not just in years, from the inspiration of four wretched suicide bombers in Britain. ![]() It is, of course, from the opening chapter of John Buchan's famous thriller, Greenmantle. This wonderful flurry gives the game away. I have reports from agents everywhere - peddlars in South Russia, Afghan horse-dealers, Turcoman merchants, pilgrims on the road to Mecca, sheikhs in North Africa, sailors on the Black Sea coasters, sheep-skinned Mongols, Hindu fakirs, Greek traders in the Gulf, as well as respectable Consuls who use cyphers. ![]()
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