Presented in a new annotated edition accompanied with extra material, The Secret Agent is one of literature's first political thrillers, and is widely considered to be among Conrad's masterpieces The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country's ambassador, and told of a plot that involves him planting a bomb at a famous London landmark. Verloc has misgivings, but Mr Vladimir kn