Published: 1907
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In 1894 at Greenwich Park, London, an anarchist called Martial Bourdin was killed when the explosives he was carrying prematurely detonated. His motives and the potential target of his bombing remained a mystery. It is this incident which inspired the author Joseph Conrad to write this novel which is perhaps one of the first spy novels written in English literature. The author spins out a simple imaginative story behind this bombing and its aftermath.
If you are expecting a plot and suspense on the lines of modern-day thrillers, you will be disappointed. However this book has brilliant tragi-comic portrayals of characters and situations in the plot, which are a delight to read if you have a taste for late nineteenth century/early twentieth century English literature. And this comes from a person (Conrad was of Polish origin.) who did not speak English fluently till he was in twenties.
You can read the plot summary of this novel at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent.
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