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Description
An undercover detective infiltrates a secret council of anarchists-only to discover that nothing and no one is what it seems.
Gabriel Syme is a poet, philosopher, and detective recruited by Scotland Yard to combat the threat of political anarchy. His mission leads him into a clandestine organization whose seven leaders are named for the days of the week. After infiltrating the group and being elected Thursday, Syme finds himself surrounded by dangerous conspirators under the command of the immense, mysterious, and terrifying figure known as Sunday.
As Syme pursues the council across London and Europe, the investigation becomes increasingly strange. Duels, disguises, betrayals, frantic chases, and unexpected revelations transform an apparent political thriller into a surreal nightmare in which the boundaries between policeman and criminal, order and rebellion, and sanity and madness begin to collapse.
First published in 1908, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare combines suspense, satire, philosophical argument, fantasy, and absurdist comedy. Often described as a metaphysical thriller, the novel explores fear, authority, suffering, identity, faith, and the possibility that apparent chaos may conceal a deeper order.
Wildly inventive and impossible to classify, The Man Who Was Thursday remains one of G. K. Chesterton's most celebrated novels and a landmark of twentieth-century speculative fiction.
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