The Secret agent
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Transatlantic Press ;
Buckinghamshire, UK :
2012.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
Adolf Verloc's seedy Soho shop is a front for political machinations, a meeting place for a moteley assortment of agitators and extremists. Verloc treads a dangerous line: consorting with anarchists, reporting their activities to a foreign embassy and passing on information to Scotland Yard. When Vladimir, his paymaster, orders Verloc to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich as a wake-up call to complacent British authorities, the agent provocateur dupes a family member to act as unwitting bomb carrier. Executing the plan triggers a chain of events that topples Verloc from his position of comfortable duplicity. Conrad used a real-life attempt to blow up the Royal Observatory in 1894 as the springboard for this masterly tale of political intrique, espionage and terrorist intent, which crackles with prescient import.
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Details
- ISBN: 9781908533852
- Physical Description: 287 p.: ill.; 23 cm.print
- Publisher: Buckinghamshire, UK : Transatlantic Press ; 2012.