The Man Who Was Thursday - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908)

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Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? In a London park, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover at the Central Anarchist Council of Europe and infiltrate their deadly mission, even getting himself voted into the "Thursday" position. However, when Syme discovers another undercover cop on the Council, he begins to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as does his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies. But he still has to face the Council's greatest terror: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could have ever imagined...
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908.