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The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

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An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair. 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 ...

First published 1907 Methuen Publishing 348 pages
Category
Mystery
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Must-Read
Author works
8
Editions known
335
Classification
DDC 822.912 LCC PR-6005.00000000.O4 S4 1995 Africa, fictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Anarchistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etcAnarchistsAnarchists, fictionAttentats à la bombe -- Romans, nouvelles, etcBiographicalBombings
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ISBN 1904919472 English
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