# The Secret Agent

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- Book: [The Secret Agent](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-conrad/the-secret-agent) ([The Secret Agent.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-conrad/the-secret-agent.md))
- Authors: [Joseph Conrad](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-conrad)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: audio
- Length: 10 h 33 min
- ISBN: 978-02-4142-971-6
- Published: 2019-09-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 10 h 33 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Luke Norris, known for his role in BBC drama Poldark . This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Michael Newton. 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 Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.