The Man Who Was Thursday

When Gabriel Syme is mysteriously recruited into a secret arm of Scotland Yard to combat the nascent anarchist movement, little could have prepared him for what he was about to encounter. Mystery and paradox walk side by side along the dark Edwardian streets of London as Syme is taken into the veiled world of European Anarchism. He joins a secret organization to defeat a secret organization; he goes beyond the law to uphold it and ultimately he has no idea where is heading in his...
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When Gabriel Syme is mysteriously recruited into a secret arm of Scotland Yard to combat the nascent anarchist movement, little could have prepared him for what he was about to encounter. Mystery and paradox walk side by side along the dark Edwardian streets of London as Syme is taken into the veiled world of European Anarchism. He joins a secret organization to defeat a secret organization; he goes beyond the law to uphold it and ultimately he has no idea where is heading in his attempt to ensure order. The Supreme Council of Anarchists must be infiltrated and their plan to assassinate the Tsar of Russia and the French President thwarted. But the rebels pose an even greater danger to civil society, "When they talk of a paradise without right or wrong, they mean the grave. They have but two objects, to destroy first humanity and then themselves." However, the real mystery is not who Thursday is, but rather who is Sunday?Chesterton once more writes a detective novel like none other, filled with adventure, intrigue and philosophical disclosure. Where Doyle gives you the science and inductive reasoning, Chesterton offers the reader an altogether alternative experience and enduring reflection.