TY - BOOK AU - Cornad, Joseph TI - The secret agent: A simple tale T2 - Penguin popular classics SN - 1857151232 AV - PR6005.O4 CON PY - 1992/// PB - David Campbell Publishers KW - Conspiracies KW - Anarchists N2 - This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, a Russian spy who is also working for the police, is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho ER -