The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
Price: $2.99 USD. 90360 words.
Published by Crossroad Press on November 18, 2010. .
In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verlac, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.