num_pages: 249
description: Mr Verloc runs a seedy shop in Soho with his wife. The shop is a meeting place for political fanatics, and Mr Verloc, a secret anarchist, is charged with planting a bomb causing an 'outrage' at Greenwich. But does he really have the courage of his convictions?
language: English
title: The Secret Agent
titlecomplete: The Secret Agent
characters: Stevie, Winnie Verloc, Chief Inspector Heat, Mr. Vladimir, Sir Ethelred, Comrade Alexander Ossipon, Adolf Verloc, Michaelis, Karl Yundt, the Assistant Commissioner
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Crime, Classics, Espionage, Novels, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 22118
places: London, England
publisher: Penguin Books