This is a blog about Gabriel Syme, The man who was Thursday. He was not merely a detective disguised as a poet, but was a poet who by chance became a detective. Every artist must rebel against something, so he came to rebel against rebellion itself. This is the story of his nightmare, when he went undercover as a terrorist leader on the dreaded Council of Days, the high council of the anarchist movement that festered in the shadows of Victorian London.
