Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent
Paperback
(SDE Classics Sept. 3, 2019)
To the destruction of what is.London, 1886: Adolf Verloc, by day he is a small shop owner who lives uneventfully with his wife, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law. By night, he is an agent provocateur. The unnamed country in which employs his clandestine life has found his service record to be lacking, and in order to redeem himself, they offer him a new and dangerous mission. One of terrorist machinations, this new mission finds Adolf convincing a group of local Anarchists to detonate a bomb at the Greenwich Observatory.
- ISBN
- 1949982211 / 9781949982213
- Pages
- 250
- Weight
- 15.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.6
in.