In Greenmantle (1916), a classic tale of espionage and adventure, Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe on the trail 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. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot--Greenmantle himself--a character modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. Together they move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border in order to face their enemies: the grotesque Stumm and the evil femme fatale Hilda von Einem.
This audio adaptation of the television documentary of the same name is a valuable asset to the study of the West as it really was and is also a first-rate entertainment. Jack Lemmon is the chief reader, while other celebrities like Richard Thomas and Helen Hunt contribute. The readers render the actual words of people who lived in the Wild West. The authentic music and sound effects combine to bring history to life. A brochure enclosed in the packaging highlights the important events of the 19th century. Excellent as all this material is, there are problems: the tapes are not labeled, and the print in the brochure is extremely small.
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