The Man Who Was Thursday - Chesterton, G K
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"The enduring classic, now with updated language for today's reader ... Gabriel Syme, poet-turned-detective, infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists in an attempt to discover their plans of terrorism. But when Syme is elected "Thursday"--One of seven members of the Central Anarchist Council--the real nightmare begins, for these anarchists are not just planning to overthrow the government, but destroy the very world. From philosopher policemen to advocating anarchists, Syme discovers that he's not the only one who isn't what he seems ... including the grand Sunday himself"--Page 4 of cover

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"The enduring classic, now with updated language for today's reader ... Gabriel Syme, poet-turned-detective, infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists in an attempt to discover their plans of terrorism. But when Syme is elected "Thursday"--One of seven members of the Central Anarchist Council--the real nightmare begins, for these anarchists are not just planning to overthrow the government, but destroy the very world. From philosopher policemen to advocating anarchists, Syme discovers that he's not the only one who isn't what he seems ... including the grand Sunday himself"--Page 4 of cover
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Renowned for his wit, rhetorical brilliance, and ingenious paradoxes, Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.