- Write What You Know:
- John Buchan spent several years living and working in the colonial administration of British South Africa, which he drew on for Hannay's background.
- Blenkiron is afflicted by a duodenal ulcer, something from which Buchan himself suffered for many years. By the the events of Mr. Standfast, he's had an operation to relieve him of this ailment; sadly, the same was never true for his creator.
- Write Who You Know: The dedication to Greenmantle implies that Dick Hannay, Sandy Arbuthnot, Peter Pienaar, and John Blenkiron are all modeled on real people. Edmund Ironside
has been suggested as the model for Hannay.
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