Greenmantle by John Buchan

Greenmantle is a classic espionage thriller packed with action that is set in the First World War.

The reckless all-action hero Richard Hannay, first featured in John Buchan's thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, is summoned to probe rumors of an uprising in the Muslim world. He undertakes a dangerous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy Arbuthnot; and together with Peter Pienaar, the old Boer scout, and John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser, they travel in disguise to the Russian border to face the German conspirators: the grotesque and hard-headed Colonel Ulrich von Stumm, and the powerful and wicked Hilda von Einem.

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The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

"I realised that I was bottled as sure as a pickled herring, and that there was only one way out. I had to die. If my pursuers knew I was dead they would go to sleep again."

Richard Hannay returns to England from South Africa to start a new life, but he gets caught up in a plot to ruin the British war effort (the First World War). Soon Hannay has to flee from his pursuers and has to fight for his life while trying to reveal the cipher code that will uncover the plot.

The Thirty-Nine Steps is a suspense-filled thriller (the first of three by John Buchan) featuring Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and an astonishing habit of getting himself out of sticky circumstances.

The novel formed the basis for a number of film adaptations, notably Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 adaptation, a 1959 color remake, a more faithful 1978 version, and a 2008 version for British television.

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Strike of the Black Mamba by Ian Kruger

The unthinkable has happened. An environmental organization warned the world against it. Still, nobody believed that it would turn out like this. But Donald Morse proves everyone wrong.

Defying all security measures, he manages to steal a shipment of nuclear material from a cargo ship destined for Japan’s nuclear power reactors. Could anything be worse than this scenario? Perhaps the fact that Donald Morse knows that South African scientists developed extremely dangerous nuclear weapons during the apartheid years, weapons that the world thought were not possible to construct. Donald has information where these deadly weapons are hidden - and he has plans to get them out.

Ken Palmer is sent by the FBI to find Donald Morse and to arrest him. But Ken has to deal with traitors from within as well as onslaughts on his life. However, he discovers the real spine-chilling reason for Donald’s need for the nuclear weapons and he realizes that Donald has to be stopped in any way possible.

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