Alas, I didn't care for it. The Man Who Was Thursday is an allegorical spy story, for lack of a better description. An undercover police officer infiltrates the Central Anarchist Council, only to discover that most of the other ranking anarchists are policemen also. The initial chapters are strong, especially the chapter describing the background of our hero Gabriel Syme, but I lost interest as the book left realism behind for a farcical tone.
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