The Secret Agent

"For history is made with tools, not with ideas; and everything is changed by economic conditions - art, philosophy, love, virtue - truth itself!"

A London shop owner turned secret agent, Adolf Verloc is tasked by his contact at the Embassy to carry out an attack in order to rile up the British government against anarchism. Using the knowledge gleaned from his meetings with an anarchist cell, Verloc's plan goes awry when the device explodes too early, killing a man. When the police come asking for his assistance in tracking down the culprit, will Verloc's double life be exposed to his unsuspecting family?

A dark and tragic tale of espionage and terrorism, The Secret Agent was a critical hit on publication in 1907. Considered one of Joseph Conrad's best novels, the author drew inspiration from a failed attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894.

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