Title: The secret agent : a simple tale /
Authors: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924; Lyon, John, 1956-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Conspiracies Fiction; Anarchists Fiction; Bombings Fiction; London (England) Fiction
Abstract: Mr. Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be a simple tale proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.