Darkness At Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the headache politics of our time. Its hero is a maturing revolutionary, put behind bars and emotionally tortured by the Party to which he has devoted his life. As the pressure to admit preposterous criminal offenses boosts, he re-lives a profession that embodies the dreadful paradoxes and human betrayals of a totalitarian activity masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.

　　Practically unbearably vivid in its depiction of one guy's singular agony, Darkness At Noon asks concerns about ends and means that have significance not just for the previous but for the dangerous present. It is-- as the Times Literary Supplement has declared--"An amazing book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, certainly of all innovative dictatorships, and at the same time a stressful and subtly intellectualized

　　drama ...".

　　by Arthur Koestler.

　　ISBN-10: 54, ISBN-13: 58.