The Secret Agent

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480484177

<DIV><B>The classic tale of terrorism from one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s greatest novelists</B><BR /><BR /> To his friends and family Adolf Verloc is a typical London businessman. But in reality he is a secret agent for a foreign government. His assignment has been to stir up trouble among the local anarchist groups, but when his handlers become frustrated with his lack of progress, they demand a new course of action: Verloc will bomb the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.<BR /><BR /> A masterpiece of intricate plotting and dark realism,&#160;<I>The Secret Agent&#160;</I>skips backward and forward in time as the repercussions of its central event are felt by every character&mdash;from the radicals who think Verloc is one of their own to the wife and brother-in-law he traps in his whirlwind of destruction. This is one of Joseph Conrad&rsquo;s finest novels, and a portrait of the devastating effects of extremism, as relevant today as when it was first published more than a century ago.<BR /><BR /> This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</DIV>