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Cast. Toby Jones as Mr Anton Verloc, a businessman running a sex shop in London's Soho who is being secretly paid by the Russian embassy to spy on revolutionary groups. In Conrad's original novel, Verloc's first name is Adolf, but Jones stated in an interview that "no one can be called Adolf anymore".
Set in London in 1886, the novel follows the life of Adolf Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie.
The Secret Agent: With Toby Jones, Vicky McClure, Charlie Hamblett, Marie Critchley. Verloc, the owner of a seedy shop in Victorian Soho, plays a dangerous game spying on an agitating anarchist group that will prove useful to the foreign power he is secretly working for.
London, 1886: The owner of a seedy Soho shop doubles as a spy for the Russian embassy, dragging his family into a tragic terror plot. Based on Joseph Conrad's classic thriller. On iPlayer
The Secret Agent is a novel by Joseph Conrad. It was published in 1907. The novel describes events in the life of a man named Verloc, a secret government agent for an unnamed country living in London in 1886, who is ordered to carry out a bombing with the goal of manipulating the British government.
In 1886 London, unassuming shop owner Anton Verloc secretly works as a spy for the Russian government. Verloc's employers task him with arranging a bombing that will be blamed on a group of London anarchists. S1 E2 - Episode 2. July 23, 2016. 57min. 13+.
Jul 17, 2016 · Much of the series is centred around Soho in London – and while it’s set in Victorian times, it still sounds pretty recognisable, especially with lead character Verloc being a sex shop owner....
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