Paperback, 192 pages
Published Oct. 1, 2002 by Wagenbach.
Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty,When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies.But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has - its leader: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined ...
The best parts of this are definitely Chesterton's humor. The plot is better taken as an elaborate slapstick, which according to his own essays on the subject it was really meant to be. A satire on pessimistic philosophy taken perhaps a few chapters too far.
