Odd book. Appropriately subtitled “A Nightmare,” you don’t know who’s on your side, and before the end of the book you have hoards of people chasing the heroes, foes showing themselves to be friends, and allies being absorbed into the oncoming mob. This story, written in the early 20th century, also gives you a duel, a car chase — perhaps one of the first ever recorded — and (I kid you not) a high speed elephant chase through the streets of London, with the heroes pursuing in cabs (the horse-drawn kind).
If you want a book that has the tables turning again and again (sorry — once you’ve read the second chapter, you can yell at me for that), read this one about a police detective posing as a poet who accidentally infiltrates a Supreme Anarchy Council in his attempt to eliminate anarchy, only to find out that the Supreme Anarchist is someone very different than ever he would have imagined.
Have you read it? What did you think?
