num_pages: 283
description: The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed original of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. In it's use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, it set the terms by which subsequent works in its genre were created. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange, in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius was such that we still have no truer map of the region's moral terrain that his story of a terrorist plot and it's tragic consequences for both guilty and innocent alike.
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: 22121
places: London, England
publisher: Everyman's Library