The Secret Agent

[Joshua Rogan]

Has anyone been watching the BBC series The Secret Agent?
It's an adaption of the novel by Joseph Conrad, about an anarchist circle in 1886 London.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4902046/

[John G]

Has anyone been watching the BBC series The Secret Agent?
It's an adaption of the novel by Joseph Conrad, about an anarchist circle in 1886 London.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4902046/

Yes, I have. An excellent series so far.

[Mayerling]

Yes, I have. An excellent series so far.

I read the novel many years ago. It was quite good, exposing the world of anarchists and terrorists in London about 1900. The story is based on the 1894 attempt to destroy the Observatory at Greenwich by one Martial Bourdin, who blew himself up before he could set the bomb for it's "proper" purpose. Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film, "Sabotage" with Silvia Sydney, Oskar Homolka, and John Loder was based on the novel.

Jeff