The Secret Agent is arguably one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century Its brilliant depiction of a terrorist underworld, its ruthless irony and its black satire is the culmination of many influencабыоьes on Conrad, including that of Dickens and of Dostoyevsky Mr Vladimir thinks that the secret agent Verloc had done little to earn his money in recent years and it is time for a dynamic outrage to provoke the middle classes.