The Secret Agent

In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agentcommunicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verloc must deal with the repercussions of his actions.

Author: Joseph Conrad

Publisher: Oxford

Released Date: 1996

ISBN: 9780192816276