The Secret Agent

✍ Scribed by Conrad, Joseph

• Book ID: 107845347
• Publisher: IndyPublish.com
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 162 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Edited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot MalliosIntroduction by Robert D. Kaplan In reexamining "The Secret Agent in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrad's "surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism," calling the book "a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future long before a social scientist does." This intense 1907 thriller-a precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carre-concerns a British double agent who infiltrates a cabal of anarchists. Conrad explores political and criminal intrigue in a modern society, building to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis deemed "one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction."