Mrs. Septimus October, a lady of vastwealth whose hobby is revolution descends with her mysterious entourageto stage her great experiment-one aimed at ridding the world of hatredby focusing it on one single individual and destroying him. Her strangecadre of agents grows amid surprising, even sinister circumstances. Herbright and terrible revolution, however, takes a turn she had notanticipated, and the novel reveals itself as a ferocious, many-leveledfable.