num_pages: 76
description: Adolf Verloc is a double agent, working for both the British police and a foreign country. He pretends to live a normal life, with his wife, Winnie and has a shop in London, which, at night, becomes a meeting place for anarchists. One day Verloc is told to plant a bomb - but the plan goesterribly wrong Does Verloc really love Winnie, or is she just part of his cover? Can Winnie ever forgive him? Who is Verloc really working for?
language: English
title: The Secret Agent
titlecomplete: The Secret Agent
characters: Karl Yundt, Stevie, Winnie Verloc, Chief Inspector Heat, Mr. Vladimir, Adolf Verloc, Comrade Alexander Ossipon, the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Ethelred, Michaelis
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Espionage, Crime
ratings_count: 22124
places: London, England
publisher: Oxford University Press