The year is 1916. Europe bleeds. And somewhere in the shadowed corridors of power, a conspiracy threatens to unravel everything. Richard Hannay, the man who once evaded assassins across the English countryside in The Thirty-Nine Steps, has traded that breathless adventure for the dull throb of war wounds. But rest doesn't last long. A telegram from Foreign Office man Sir Walter Bullivant pulls Hannay into something far graver than a bullet: a whisper of a holy war, a weapon of faith and fury aimed at the British Empire's throat. A mysterious figure called Greenmantle moves through the Muslim world, weaving discontent into an uprising that could shift the entire balance of the war. Hannay must recruit the reckless Sandy Arbuthnot and the blunt American John S. Blenkiron, and chase Greenmantle from the English countryside to Constantinople and beyond. The mission is impossible. The stakes are empire-wide. And time is running out.
