A wild, mad, hilarious and profoundly moving tale, now re-issued GK Chesterton’s The Man Who was Thursday: A Nightmare, originally appeared in 1908, at the height of another War on Terror, when Western Civilization grappled with a perceived worldwide anarchist plot to assassinate crowned heads and elected potentates. It is very difficult to classify The Man Who was Thursday. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, The Man Who was Thursday succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is a magnificent tour-de-force of suspense-writing. However, the reader will soon discover much more than that. Carried along on the boisterous rush of the narrative by Chesterton’s wonderful high-spirited style, he will soon see that he is being carried into much deeper waters than he had planned on; and the totally unforeseeable denouement will prove for the modern reader, as it has for thousands of others since 1908 when the book was first published, an inevitable and moving experience, as the investigators finally discover who Sunday is. Chesterton was a champion of core European values, and the Western Culture Institute proudly issues this important classic, whose philsophy is timeless and deals with issues we still face today. http://stores.lulu.com/wci is also a must-have.