Greenmantle

I first read this book when I was 10 or 11. It was a library copy, borrowed from the Kodaikanal Club in Kodaikanal, a hill station in south India. It used to be the local English club and the contents of the library still include a large number of old hardbound editions of authors who were popular i......more

Published during WW1, Greenmantle should be classified as a classic simply because it was published more than a hundred years ago but then add the espionage elements with the harrowing cloak and dagger escapes, and the novel comes to life despite its age. True that the novel has not aged well, in th......more

Greenmantle follows Buchan's "Thirty-nine Steps" not as a sequel so much (imho), but rather as something along the line of the further adventures of Richard Hannay, the main protagonist and overall hero of the Thirty-nine Steps. Hannay has since been a soldier in WWI, in which he was injured at Loos......more