Within the surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, the poet, is recruited to a secret counter-terrorist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Syme persuades Lucian Gregory, an anarchist, to lead him to a local terrorist cell, in which he is elected when the cell's representative to a worldwide council of nihilist — the Central Anarchist Council — seven men, each using the title of the day of the week as a code title. His efforts to thwart a council's intentions & oppose wholly lawless acts reveal the laughable total of unbelievable allies. At long last, Syme & his fellow champions of a correct sequence look at the head syndicalist, exclusively to call for their perception of the correct sequence & chaos turned totally top down. A novel's subtitle, "A Nightmare," occurs as summation of the fearful & more and more surreal globe where Syme finds himself enmeshed.

Prefer virtually all of Chesterton's fiction, a story is heavily within Christian allegory. Chesterton, world health organization suffered from either depression for much of his life, claimed later on that he wrote this book as an unusual affirmation that goodness & perfect were at a heart of each aspect of the globe. He experienced hoped a book would help as an encouragement to himself & to more members of his personal world health organization as well got a tendency to turn into melancholy. A book is non exactly expressed around endorsing Christian beliefs, and a philosophy expressed in the book is in some manner additional dualistic than most Christian theologians would accept. Chesterton's beliefs, still, produce an undeniable mark on a book, especially in a final chapters, in which Sunday (the principal nihilist) is closely aligned by using the Christian God both in the symbols surrounding him and in the claims he makes just about himself.