In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal
turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a
secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an
anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his
temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme,
who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory
finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove
that he is a true anarchist. Instead of the anarchist Gregory getting
elected, the officer Syme uses his wits and is elected as the local
representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The
Council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the
week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday. In his
efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, he discovers that
five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; each was
just as mysteriously employed and assigned to defeat the Council of
Days. They all soon find out that they are fighting each other and not
a real anarchists; such was the mastermind plan of the genius Sunday.
In a dizzying and surreal conclusion, the six champions of order and
former anarchist ring-leaders must chase down the disturbing and
whimsical Sunday, the man who calls himself "The Peace of God."
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ISBN
9781515415619
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Dancing Unicorn Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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