Taken for a Ride

Sandy Arbuthnot asks for Richard Hannay’s opinion of Hilda von Einem, a German spy, and Hannay replies that she is both mad and visionary. Sandy concurs. At first hearing, her goals sound as noble as those of her tame Muslim prophet, but where he preaches the self-denial of the ascetic, she demands servitude to Germany’s new world order.

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