The Man who was Thursday

Resumen del libro

'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"'.
In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, 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'. 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: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined...

Biografía del autor

G. K. Chesterton (Londres 1874 x{0026} x02013; Beaconsfield 1936), fue un literato y polemista inglés convertido en 1922 al catolicismo. Abandonó sus estudios de arte para dedicarse al periodismo. Comenzó escribiendo poesía y ensayos críticos sobre diversos escritores británicos, pero la fama y el reconocimiento internacional le llegaron con sus novelas y relatos, obras llenas de imaginación, sentido del humor y hábil manejo lingüístico, como El hombre que fue Jueves, El Napoleón de Notting Hill, La esfera y la cruz o los celebérrimos relatos del padre Brown. Escribió, además, dos extraordinarias biografías de santo Tomás de Aquino y san Francisco de Asís, esta última publicada en castellano por Ediciones Encuentro.