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The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1907
Pages
Pages 290

A London shopkeeper secretly working for a foreign embassy sends his simple-minded young brother-in-law to bomb an observatory; when the boy is blown apart instead, the agent's wife learns why and kills him, then herself.

Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.
The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad

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