Dans l'Angleterre en guerre, un officier, Dick Hannay, en convalescence après une blessure, 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 guerre. Aidé d'un américain flegmatique, Blenkiron, d'un de ses amis, Dick, et d'un vieux casseur Australien, ils doivent, chacun de leur côté, essayer de gagner la Turquie. Dick Hannay, quant à lui, se jette dans la gueule du loup en pénétrant directement en Allemagne... 

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Le prophète au manteau vert

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

I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manor with a mighty appetite and a quiet mind.

As we slipped up the Thames valley on the smooth Great Western line I had reflected ruefully on the thorns in the path of duty. For more than a year I had never been out of khaki, except the months I spent in hospital. They gave me my battalion before the Somme, and I came out of that weary battle after the first big September fighting with a crack in my head and a D. S. O. I had received a C. B. for the Erzerum business, so what with these and my Matabele and South African medals and the Legion of Honour, I had a chest like the High Priest's breastplate. I rejoined in January, and got a brigade on the eve of Arras. There we had a star turn, and took about as many prisoners as we put infantry over the top. After that we were hauled out for a month, and subsequently planted in a bad bit on the Scarpe with a hint that we would soon be used for a big push.

Mr. Standfast

Premier roman mettant en scène Richard Hannay, sud-africain, ingénieur des mines et prospecteur. Hannay se retrouve mêlé à une aventure incroyable qui conduira à l’attentat de Sarajevo en juin 1914.Tout commence par la découverte d’un cadavre au milieu de son salon. Il s’avère qu’une organisation internationale ultrapuissante fomente un complot terrible visant à mettre l’Europe à feu et à sang. Hannay se retrouve seul face à des adversaires redoutables, envoyés par la « Pierre-Noire ». Il a vingt jours pour déjouer les stratagèmes de la Pierre-Noire et rester en vie, vingt jours seulement pour comprendre ce que signifie « Les Trente-Neuf marches » et sauver l’Europe de la guerre.

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

Deployed to the Middle East during the First World War, British secret agent Richard Hannay must stop the Germans and Turks from creating an uprising in the Muslim World-an uprising that would prove devastating to Allied efforts to win the war. Forced to find his own way through enemy territory to rendezvous with his friend and comrade Sandy Arbuthnot, Richard's survival depends on figuring out the enemy's plan and stopping it before it is too late. Revisiting the memorable characters from The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle is one of two Richard Hannay novels set during the First World War. The Thirty-Nine Steps and its four sequels established John Buchan as an original thriller writer and pioneer of espionage fiction. 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.

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

Richard Hannay, ex-ingénieur des mines en Afrique du Sud et général de brigade mais surtout incorrigible détective amateur, découvre un cadavre au beau milieu de son salon. Il s'avère qu'une organisation secrète ultra-puissante fomente un complot international aux objectifs les plus noirs... Richard Hannay se retrouve alors seul face à des adversaires des plus sanguinaires et seulement vingt jours pour échapper à ses poursuivants, fuir à travers l'Ecosse, déjouer les stratagèmes de la " Pierre Noire ", sauver l'Europe et la paix... Vingt jours d'une course infernale qu'il faut absolument gagner. John Buchan fut l'incontestable précurseur du roman d'espionnage contemporain. Alfred Hitchcock adapte Les Trente-Neuf marches au cinéma en 1935.

Le prophète au manteau vert

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