If most modern thrillers are like a boxing glove, showing you the force and direction, sometimes misdirection, of the punch, then this book is the inside of that glove – giving all the thoughts, feelings, assumptions and life choices that went into the punch. It’s an exquisite book that combines the pulse of a good plot with a convincing understanding of what makes people tick. Mr Verloc is a lazy spy in the pay of the French government in late 19th Century London. His job is to report on anarchists and revolutionaries as the tide of change and worker’s rights sweeps across Europe. England’s tolerant attitudes don’t suit Paris and so Verloc is asked to concoct a bombing atrocity in order to stiffen the backbone of the British Government.
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