The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

Genre: Mystery

Language: English

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, 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. The novel, one of the best Conrad's works, deals broadly with anarchism, espionage and terrorism.