A London shopkeeper and spy is drawn into an anarchist plot to bomb the Greenwich Observatory, with devastating domestic consequences.
Books mentioned in The Secret Agent (2)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “a long, meagre face with the accentuated features of an energetic Don Quixote”
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace: “does not Alfred Wallace relate in his famous book on the Malay Archipelago”
Books that mention The Secret Agent (3)
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie: “The Secret Agent, The Man Who Was Thursday, tales of espionage and secret societies, these were his guides.”
Secret Son by Laila Lalami: chapter epigraph: JOSEPH CONRAD, The Secret Agent
There but for the by Ali Smith: “'she took the book down off the shelf, The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. It was about Greenwich and the man blowing himself up in the park!'”