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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Joseph Conrad, John Lyon (Editor) Paperback, 245 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-19-953635-X / 019953635X ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953635-1 / 9780199536351 Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a sim |