In London at the end of the nineteenth century, Adolf Verloc keeps a shady little shop in Soho, where he lives with his wife Winnie and Winnie's simple-minded young brother, Stevie. Secretly, he spies on anarchists for a foreign embassy. One day, his employer demands that he carry out a bomb attack on the Greenwich Observatory.
Inspired by a real failed bombing, it is one of the first great novels about terrorism, and still strikingly relevant.
With the translation always in front of you, you can read this dark, ironic novel in the language you are learning.
