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Greenmantle

By: John Buchan
Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
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In Greenmantle, Richard Hannay, the South African mining engineer and war hero first introduced in Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic messiah.

He is joined by three others: John S. Blenkiron, an American who is determined to battle the Kaiser; Peter Pienaar, an old Boer Scout; and the colorful Sandy Arbuthnot, who is modeled on Lawrence of Arabia. Disguised, they travel through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border to confront their enemies, the hideous Stumm and the evil beauty Hilda von Einem. Their success or failure could change the outcome of the First World War.

(P)1996 Blackstone Audio Inc. Classics Espionage European Literary History & Criticism Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense World Literature War
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"A specialty audio, a classic, but definitely a 'thinking man's audio'. Bravo, Blackstone Audiobooks, which seems to find these gems!" (KLIATT)
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This a great adventure story it keeps guessing to the end and the character's are grat

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My favourite of the Richard Hannay stories. Completely brilliant. I’ll be listening to this again for sure. The narrator is excellent.

Very well read!

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Execellent narration, really captures Hannay's voice as well as the supporting characters. Aside from 39 Steps this is best of the Hannay series.

Excellent

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This is the book that Buchan was warming up for when he wrote the 39 steps. Its essentially the same story but bigger, more action, more travel and more chums...Have you seen the Will Smith film Bad Boys? Well this is Bad Boys two.
What I found surprising though was the comforting wisdom in it, the casts attitude to life, whats important and their struggles was gently inspiring.
Its not the best book ever but its a good solid piece of quality classic British writing.

Buchan's Best

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The story has moments of brilliance, but is riven with howling moments that expose the racism of the time it was written in. It's an enjoyable adventure provided you can accept those times are behind us. If you can do that then it becomes a journey through a truly strange land.

The narrator does an excellent job except for the single worst South African accent I've ever heard in my life. Egyptian meets Scottish??!

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