The Man Who Was Thursday

Chesterton’s dizzying thriller follows Gabriel Syme, an undercover detective who infiltrates a council of anarchists whose members are each named for a day of the week. What begins as a spy story spirals into a philosophical chase where nothing is what it seems and every enemy may be an ally. Subtitled ‘A Nightmare,’ it is part detective romp, part metaphysical allegory, and wholly unlike anything else.