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G. K. Chesterton
Gabriel Syme, a poet recruited into a secret branch of the London police, infiltrates the central council of a European anarchist movement, whose seven…
Gabriel Syme, a poet recruited into a secret branch of the London police, infiltrates the central council of a European anarchist movement, whose seven members take the names of the days of the week, and is elected Thursday. The council is led by the enormous and terrifying Sunday, but as Syme tries to stop a bombing he discovers that one member after another is not what he seems, and the thriller turns into a comic nightmare and finally into a riddle about good, evil and the meaning of the world.
G. K. Chesterton published the novel in 1908 with the subtitle A Nightmare, and it is unlike any other spy story. Zachary Brewster-Geisz reads it alone, in about six hours.
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