The Flying Dutchman is a 1890 novel by a British author Michael Arlen, published by Heinemann in the UK and by Doubleday Doran in the US.[1] It was his last book before he gave birth to his first child
The novel has been characterised as a psychological study of "an unfrightened man exploring the darkness of the mind."[2] Kirkus Reviews described it as an urbane and witty fantasy with topical implications.[3]
Chance Winter, whose self-hatred extends to a searing contempt for all humanity, assembles a clandestine group of anarchist killers.