Dick Hannay se voit confier une mission secrète de la plus haute importance : trouver ce qui se trame en Turquie, et qui pourrait changer la face de la Grande guerre. Aidé par trois personnes : d'un américain, d'un de ses amis Dick, et d'un vieux casseur Australien, ils doivent gagner la Turquie. Dick Hannay, quant à lui, se retrouve en Allemagne…

Le Manteau vert

Londres, 1914. Lorsque Richard Hannay découvre le corps du mystérieux Franklin Scudder dans son appartement, c'est le début d'une véritable course contre la montre. Notre héros, ancien ingénieur des mines, n'aura que vingt jours pour dénouer un complot international, échapper à une organisation criminelle et comprendre la signification d'un étrange nom de code : « les trente- neuf marches ».

Les 39 marches

John Buchan's "Greenmantle" is a 1916 adventure and espionage novel. In this second book of the Richard Hannay series (following The Thirty-Nine steps), Hannay is called to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant at the beginning of the story. His mission: thwart German plans to wreak havoc in the Near East and Middle East through religious uprising. Hannay will gather his friends, and together they will travel to the Bosphorus, and fight bigger than life characters along the way. Discover Greenmantle with its original preface and biography in this new edition by Les Éditions de Londres.

Greenmantle

Die Handlung spielt zur Zeit des Jakobitenaufstandes von 1745, als eine Armee schottischer Hochländer, die Charles Stuart auf den englischen Thron setzen wollte, bis nach Süden in England vordrang. Der Prinz, auch bekannt als "Bonnie Prince Charlie", der Enkel des gestürzten Königs James II., benötigte Männer und Geld von englischen Sympathisanten der Jakobiten, den Landbesitzern in den westlichen Grafschaften und Wales. Alastair Maclean, einer der treuesten Anhänger des Prinzen, wird in geheimer Mission hingeschickt. Dabei befreundet er sich mit einem aufstrebenden Literaten, und schattenhaften Gestalt, die nur als "Midwinter" bekannt ist. 

Midwinter ist eine lebendige historische Abenteuergeschichte und der Leser fragt sich, ob eine Entscheidung von Alistair nicht den Lauf der Geschichte geändert hat.

Midwinter - Historischer Abenteuerroman aus der Zeit des Jakobitenaufstandes

When an international anarchist organization called The Power-House threatens to destroy Western civilization, lawyer and MP Edward Leithen must race against time and his friend Charles Pitt-Lumley, a new Power-House recruit, to restore stability to the Western system. With keen intellect and instincts, John Buchan's indomitable Sir Edward Leithen features prominently in several other novels, including John Macnab, The Dancing Floor, The Gap in the Curtain, and Sick Heart River. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Power-House

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun. 'Richard Hannay, ' I kept telling myself, 'you have got into the wrong ditch, my friend, and you had better climb out.' It made me bite my lips to think of the plans I had been building up those last years in Bulawayo. I had got my pile-not one of the big ones, but good enough for me; and I had figured out all kinds of ways of enjoying myself. My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of Arabian Nights to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days.

The Thirty Nine Steps

Voici le livre dont a été tiré le célèbre film d'Alfred Hitchcock:

Richard Hannay, de retour d'Afrique du sud, s'ennuie dans son pays, l'Angleterre, et pense à repartir lorsqu'un locataire de son immeuble, Franklin P. Scudder, l'en dissuade en lui offrant un travail digne de Sherlock Holmes, qui lui fera vite oublier son désir de réembarquer pour l'Afrique. Notre apprenti détective se retrouve en possession d'un carnet contenant une énigme que lui a laissé Scudder, qui a été assassiné entre temps. Que sont donc ces 39 marches?...

Les Trente-Neuf Marches

Set just before the onset of the First World War, The Thirty-Nine Steps introduces one of literature's most memorable detectives, Richard Hannay, an expatriate Scot who has just returned to London from South Africa. Four days after hearing of an assassination plot and plans to steal Britain's military strategies, Hannay's informant is found dead in his apartment. Forced to flee from both the murderers and the police, Hannay must use his wits to stay ahead of his pursuers and warn the government before it is too late. One of the most popular adventure stories ever written, The Thirty-Nine Steps is regarded as the starting point for espionage fiction and established John Buchan as the original thriller writer. The Thirty-Nine Steps, the first book in the Richard Hannay series, inspired many others novelists and filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock who directed the first of four film adaptations of the novel. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Le Manteau vert

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