A novel, 1916
Greenmantle
During the First World War, Sir Walter Bullivant sends Richard Hannay to investigate a German scheme to stir up a Muslim holy war against Britain and its allies.
How it begins
I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant’s telegram. It was at Furling, the big country house in Hampshire where I had come to convalesce after Loos, and Sandy, who was in the same case, was hunting for the marmalade.
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About the book
Contents
- Chapter 1: A Mission is Proposed
- Chapter 2: The Gathering of the Missionaries
- Chapter 3: Peter Pienaar
- Chapter 4: Adventures of Two Dutchmen on the Loose
- Chapter 5: Further Adventures of the Same
- Chapter 6: The Indiscretions of the Same
- Chapter 7: Christmastide
- Chapter 8: The Essen Barges
- Chapter 9: The Return of the Straggler
- Chapter 10: The Garden-House of Suliman the Red
- Chapter 11: The Companions of the Rosy Hours
- Chapter 12: Four Missionaries See Light in their Mission
- Chapter 13: I Move in Good Society
- Chapter 14: The Lady of the Mantilla
- Chapter 15: An Embarrassed Toilet
- Chapter 16: The Battered Caravanserai
- Chapter 17: Trouble by The Waters of Babylon
- Chapter 18: Sparrows on the Housetops
- Chapter 19: Greenmantle
- Chapter 20: Peter Pienaar Goes to the Wars
- Chapter 21: The Little Hill
- Chapter 22: The Guns of the North
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