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By Arthur Koestler

The third novel of Koestler’s trilogy on the conflict between morality and expedience, after The Gladiators and Darkness at Noon, and the first he wrote in English.

Peter Slavek, a young revolutionary who has been tortured and has escaped, washes up in a neutral country and is paralysed by a psychosomatic illness while he decides whether to fight on, emigrate, or do nothing. A psychoanalyst takes his convictions apart motive by motive, and he has to choose anyway.

First published 1943