Description
With its tense and chilling plot and its brilliant satire on a morally corrupt society. THE SECRET AGENT is one of Conrad's greatest novels.
The book centres on the Verloc family: Verloc himself is an indolent anarchist, a pornographer and a spy who conceals his political activities, such as they are, under a veneer of domesticity. His wife, Winnie, has married Verloc to protect her simple-minded brother Stevie.
