Richard Hannay goes undercover across wartime Europe to foil a German plot to raise a jihad in the East. Buchan's rollicking WWI spy adventure.
Books mentioned in Greenmantle (2)
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan: “[Major Hannay's narrative of this affair has been published under the title of _The Thirty-nine Steps_.]”
A Thousand and One Nights: “a picture of an old man in a turban coming out of a bottle in a cloud of smoke, which I remembered from a child's edition of the _Arabian Nights_.”