{"product_id":"the-secret-agent-9780451474292","title":"The Secret Agent","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph Conrad\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Signet Book\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Signet Book\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis chillingly prophetic examination of terrorism by the author of \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is the literary precursor to the espionage thrillers of Graham Greene and John Le Carré.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Agent \u003c\/i\u003eportrays the world of late-nineteenth-century London, with its fatuous civil servants, corrupt police, and squalid underworld characters like Verloc, a pornographer acting as a government informant. Verloc's assignment is to provoke the radicals whose group he has penetrated into committing an act of such violence that they will be discredited and their appeal to the masses destroyed. With its questionable characters and amoral caricatures, the novel is as much a black satire of English society as a frightening mirror of the present day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With an Introduction by E. L. Doctorow and a New Afterword by Debra Romanick Baldwin","brand":"Signet Book","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45353806987415,"sku":"9780451474292","price":352.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780451474292.webp?v=1767668749","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-secret-agent-9780451474292","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}