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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".
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
- 442
- 1907
- September 1907
Recently viewed. 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.
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- Toby Jones, Vicky Mcclure, Charlie Hamblett
The Secret Agent 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.
Aug 5, 2016 · The police identified the dead man as Martial Bourdin, a 26-year-old Frenchman with links to the anarchist Club Autonomie. He had travelled to Greenwich from Westminster by tram, after walking from...
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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.
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....