Publisher's Synopsis
The problem of anarchist violence attracted much public attention in Kaiserreich. Commentators across the political spectrum saw it as a symptom of modern society's ills. Left-liberals blamed the (Anti-)Socialist Laws and the subsequent wave of police repression for creating a German anarchist movement.
Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilize Europe and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat and returns later to find that another man has been found shot dead in the same building, apparently a suicide. Four days later Hannay finds the American stabbed to death...Followed by Greenmantle, and Mr. Standfast.
