The Secret Agent
Author | : Joseph Conrad |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 1093767669 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781093767667 |
Rating | : 4/5 (667 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.