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Adolf Verloc: a secret agent who owns a shop in Soho in London. His primary characteristic, as described by Conrad, is indolence. He has been employed by an unnamed embassy to spy on revolutionary groups, which then orders him to instigate a terrorist act against the Greenwich Observatory.
- Joseph Conrad
- 1907
Sep 11, 2005 · "The Secret Agent," Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich -- in fact, a scheme by a secret police agent to stir up a government...
The Secret Agent is a fictional take on a real-life event: the 1894 bombing in Greenwich Park, London. The true motives of the anarchist—who died in the explosion when his bomb went off prematurely—remain unknown to this day.
The Greenwich Village townhouse explosion occurred on March 6, 1970, in New York City, United States. Members of the Weather Underground (Weathermen), an American leftist militant group, were making bombs in the basement of 18 West 11th Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, when one of them exploded.
Jan 18, 2019 · In 1894 a bomb exploded in Greenwich Park, killing (accidentally) the person carrying it. That person was Martial Bourdin, a member of an Anarchist organisation known as Club Autonomie and the supposed target the bomb had actually been meant for was The Greenwich Observatory.
The story flashes forward to the aftermath of a terrorist bombing in Greenwich Park. Ossipon is having a beer with a mysterious figure called The Professor , an anarchist and bomb-maker who has a detonator and explosive device on his person at all times.
Jul 13, 2016 · It is said that sales of The Secret Agent rose sharply after the 9/11 attacks on New York City, as if the book offered insight into the mind-set of incendiary politics and the suicide bomber.
