A brand new edition of Arthur Koestler's gripping tale of arrest imprisonment & subsequent escape to London from Nazi-occupied France Arthur Koestler is now an essential part of the English literary landscape both as political activist controversialist & the author of Darkness at Noon He stands beside George Orwell as one of the key writers of the twentieth century who embraced communism but would later turn against the partyand denounce the tragic distortions & abuses that had betrayed the great vision