The Secret Agent Characters

This Study Guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Secret Agent.

The Secret Agent Characters

This Study Guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Secret Agent.
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Mr. Adolf Verloc

Mr. Verloc is a lazy man, who has chosen as his profession to sell pornographic material. Mr. Verloc is half-French, half-English. Due to this dual citizenship, Mr. Verloc is able to act as a spy for his home country of France while living and working in London. Mr. Verloc was known as a very valuable secret agent under the previous ambassador of the French government in London. However, the old ambassador has gone and his post has been taken by another more ambitious man. Mr. Verloc finds himself in a position that forces him to be more active or face the consequences of his prior activities as a secret agent.

Mr. Verloc is a member of the Red Committee, a communist group committed to social change. However, Mr. Verloc finds it difficult to find someone to help him create the proactive situation that his new boss...

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