The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [thriller]

The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad audiobook.

Genre: thriller

Set in the fog and ferment of late-Victorian London, The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale follows Adolf Verloc, a mild-mannered shopkeeper whose dingy storefront hides a more dangerous trade in secrets. Verloc drifts between two worlds: the shabby circles of self-styled revolutionaries who gather in back rooms to talk of upheaval, and the cold, bureaucratic machinery of a foreign embassy that expects results rather than excuses. Pressured to prove his usefulness, Verloc is pushed toward a reckless act meant to jolt the public into fear and the government into overreaction. At home, his seemingly quiet domestic life with his practical wife Winnie and her vulnerable younger brother Stevie becomes entangled with his covert obligations, turning private loyalties into potential casualties. As suspicion tightens and the city reacts, an inspector with a patient, methodical mind begins to pull at the loose threads, revealing how ideology, greed, and inertia can combine into catastrophe. Tense, darkly ironic, and sharply psychological, Conrad's novel examines the ordinary faces behind political violence and the devastating cost of living a double life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:36) Chapter 02

(01:14:43) Chapter 03

(01:54:51) Chapter 04

(02:29:29) Chapter 05

(03:15:14) Chapter 06

(04:11:16) Chapter 07

(04:42:57) Chapter 08

(05:40:11) Chapter 09

(06:38:26) Chapter 10

(07:05:59) Chapter 11

(07:53:34) Chapter 12

(08:20:17) Chapter 13

(08:55:45) Chapter 14

(09:30:37) Chapter 15

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