The Secret Agent

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Revolutionaries in the backstreets of 19th-century London plot the destruction of Greenwich Observatory in this masterpiece of suspense. Rich in atmosphere and psychological realism.

The Unlikely Secret Agent

Author: Ronnie Kasrils
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583672788
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Originally published: Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2010.

Secret Agent Josephine in Paris

Author: Brenda Ponnay
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1623955262
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
There's a new super spy in town! Secret Agent Josephine may not look like a super mom, but when she goes to work, bad guys better watch out for her crafty tricks. In this Secret Agent Josephine adventure, our heroine travels to Paris to scope out some new craft supplies and stop an infamous art thief. Donning disguises and stocking up on the tools of her trade, Secret Agent Josephine tracks the thief through the streets of Paris. But when she's spotted, will her crafting skills be able to get her out of a jam?

Churchill's Secret Agent

Author: Max Ciampoli
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101445599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
Based upon Max Hardonniere's own experience as a covert operative during World War II, this is the story of a young man whose acquaintance with Prime Minister Winston Churchill would lead to him being recruited and trained as a spy who would fight his own war from behind enemy lines.

The Secret Agent

Author: Christopher Hampton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571190263
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
This volume contains both screenplays based on the novels of the same name by Joseph Conrad.

Dirk Daring, Secret Agent

Author: Helaine Becker
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459806859
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
When Darren Dirkowitz's evil stepbrother (code name Waldo) gets hold of Darren's tippity-top-secret spy journal, he threatens to expose it to the entire Preston Middle School student body. Unless, that is, Darren starts doing his dirty work for him. Now Darren's got to use the oh-so-cloak-and-daggery skills he's honed in his secret alternate life as Dirk Daring, Secret Agent to spy on kids at school. Naturally, he also sets up a separate, sneaky surveillance program to unearth Waldo's own secrets. As more and more ugly truths are exposed, new alliances are forged and old friendships broken. Can Darren learn to be true to himself and build real friendships for the first time in his life? Or will he retreat back into his exciting but imaginary shadow world?

The Secret Agent and Other Spy Kids

Author: Allan Zullo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484457689
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Collects ten true stories of children and young adults who risked their lives during wartime to become spies

Are You Smart Enough to Be a Secret Agent?

Author: John Gillard
Publisher: Portable Press
ISBN: 9781645170488
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Match your wits with the CIA to find out if you have what it takes to be a super spy! Do you have what it takes to live a life of intrigue and deception, matching your wits with adversaries on the world stage? With more than 1,000 puzzles, quizzes, and hypothetical scenarios, you can measure your knowledge and decision-making skills against the standards established by the CIA for becoming a government agent. Quizzes will challenge your mastery of geopolitics and world history, and exercises such as decoding encrypted messages put your problem-solving skills to use.

The Secret Agent

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192801694
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'Mr 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 'ASimple Tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.

Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Book 6: The Pursuit of the Ivory Poachers: Kenya

Author: Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1602862087
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Jack finally receives a coded message from his brother Max, possibly detailing his whereabouts. But duty calls, and Jack is whisked away to the sweltering savannah of Kenya before he can decipher it. Once there, a wise and kind Masai chief alerts Jack to a series of elephant killings where the corpses have been robbed of their tusks. Jack must find the malevolent ring of poachers responsible before more of these endangered species are destroyed.