Twelve kinds of taste
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Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Hannay, richard (fictitious character), fiction, Great britain, fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S.
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Resolved, plot-driven, relentless and epic.
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On Open Library, 21 have read it and 31 want to.
“I HAD JUST FINISHED breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram.”
A Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan>Wikipedia</a>).
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
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“Is this John Buchan's best work?”
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“Has Greenmantle aged badly?”
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If you loved this book, the film, the television, the music, the game.
