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The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad · 1907

320 pages

In late-Victorian London, a shopkeeper who is also a paid spy for a foreign power is ordered to carry out a bombing. The people around him, including his wife and her vulnerable brother, are pulled into the consequences of a plot he cannot control.

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Spy Thriller, Betrayal, Morally Grey Character, Victorian London Atmosphere

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