The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale

✍ Scribed by Joseph Conrad

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 188 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent; communicates 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, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.