The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale Condition:Very Good waiting for a triumphant re-emergence

waiting for a triumphant re-emergence in a Renaissance vision of ancient beauty

oscillating from epic meditations on politics and history to intimate reflections on animals

here is a tale of lords and ladies

The stunning new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind

The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale Condition:Very Good waiting for a triumphant re-emergenceMr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.