Excellent

Execellent narration, really captures Hannay's voice as well as the supporting characters. Aside from 39 Steps this is best of the Hannay series.

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I really wanted to love it, but...

A bit too long? A bit too far-fetched (dare one even suggest "contrived")?

After loving The 39 Steps, this story let me down somewhat. It's hard to put my finger on exactly why, but I just didn't empathise with the characters so much. Even Hannah.

Well read, if a slightly cool and standoffish delivery - but that wasn't the problem. That was the story itself. Anyway, on to Mr Standfast with high hopes!

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Buchan's Best

This is the book that Buchan was warming up for when he wrote the 39 steps. Its essentially the same story but bigger, more action, more travel and more chums...Have you seen the Will Smith film Bad Boys? Well this is Bad Boys two.
What I found surprising though was the comforting wisdom in it, the casts attitude to life, whats important and their struggles was gently inspiring.
Its not the best book ever but its a good solid piece of quality classic British writing.

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Voice

I loved the narrative flow and intense plot and characters, as well as the history lesson

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Wonderfull

Robert Whitfield excels in his reading of this John Buchan classic. I have to admit to a strong bias, I am a huge JB fan and this is a Wonderfull story, well read. I could easily start again.

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Great journey down memory lane

Read this as a teenager many years ago,still a great adventure story. When hero’s were gentlemen.

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Greenmantle

This a great adventure story it keeps guessing to the end and the character's are grat

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Derring-do and stiff-upper-lips

Where does Greenmantle rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It's a good book and I enjoyed it - I love the old-fashioned language of John Buchan's novels.

What other book might you compare Greenmantle to, and why?

The writing is dated, and it compares well with any of the other adventure / heroic stories of that era, but political correctness, in particular to 'foreigners' had not been invented at the time Greenmantle was written.

What does Robert Whitfield bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Robert Whitfield has the perfect well-spoken English accent for the book. And if some of his 'other' accents aren't quite accurate, it doesn't matter, it all works smoothly.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Great heroes and brave spies...

Any additional comments?

The language is old-fashioned and it would be possible to laugh at the book, but it's great escapism back to my childhood when my father used to read Buchan to us.

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Old school action

if you love old fashioned British Empire adventuring with fine chaps in the Great War, you'll love this. If not, you'll hate it!

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Of its time

The story has moments of brilliance, but is riven with howling moments that expose the racism of the time it was written in. It's an enjoyable adventure provided you can accept those times are behind us. If you can do that then it becomes a journey through a truly strange land.

The narrator does an excellent job except for the single worst South African accent I've ever heard in my life. Egyptian meets Scottish??!

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