The Secret Agent

Name: The Secret Agent
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 9798882365898

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Bryan Matthews

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Robert Larson

Published: 09/29/2024

Categories: Fiction, Political, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage

Synopsis

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a complex narrative set in London in 1886, centering on Adolf Verloc, a secret agent working for an unnamed foreign embassy, likely representing Russia. Verloc leads a double life as a shopkeeper selling dubious items like pornography and contraceptives while also being embedded within a group of anarchists known as The Future of the Proletariat.The story begins with Verloc's mundane family life, where he lives with his wife Winnie, her mother, and her brother Stevie, who has a mental disability. Winnie is deeply protective of Stevie, often treating him more like a son than a sibling.Verloc's relationships with his anarchist friends—Comrade Ossipon, Michaelis, and The Professor—are marked by their ineffectiveness and ideological fervor, despite their inability to execute successful terrorist acts.Verloc's complacency draws the ire of Mr. Vladimir, the embassy's First Secretary, who demands that Verloc instigate a significant act of terrorism to provoke public outrage against anarchists.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Karren on November 26, 2020

Sylvie Crichton trains to be a Special Operations Executive and she’s the perfect choice, she was born in France, her first language is French and she’s keen to fight to free her homeland. After she passes the grueling training in Scotland, Sylvie's dropped into France in 1944; reality of her situat......more

Goodreads review by Deanne on November 24, 2020

"My name is Sylvie Duchene,and I am a dancer. Based on factual events that have been fictionalized. The amount of research the author has put into this book is very apparent. The SOE, Special Operations Executives, the women and men who where in it led a bleak life and their commitment was a life comm......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on November 08, 2020

My name is Sylvie Duchene, and I am a dancer’ When Sylvie was a little girl, she lived with her mother who is a dancer in a troupe in France. Moving from town to town and hotel to hotel but she loved the life she lived and wanted to follow in her mother footsteps. Her mother though wanted a better li......more

Goodreads review by Elodie’s Reading Corner on November 23, 2020

The Secret Agent: An emotional and totally gripping WW2 historical novel Elizabeth Hobbes [URL not allowed] Release date 11/27/2020 Publisher One More Chapter 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗯 My name is Sylvie Duchene and I am a dancer. There is no network. I am just a dancer. I know nothing. Please…I swear......more

Goodreads review by Hayley on May 02, 2024

For Jess: It was ok. I only persevered with it because I wanted to see if anything exciting was going to happen. Most action happened in the last few chapters. Disappointing.......more