When The Professor hears about that day’s bombing, he readily admits to Ossipon that he supplied Verloc with the explosives for the attack. He also believes his deadly potential makes him superior to other anarchists.

Because the police know that he’ll set off the detonator if they try to arrest him, he wanders the city freely. Ossipon is having a beer with a mysterious figure called The Professor, an anarchist and bomb-maker who has a detonator and explosive device on his person at all times. The story flashes forward to the aftermath of a terrorist bombing in Greenwich Park. Verloc, meanwhile, feels tormented by Vladimir’s threat and can’t decide what to do next. However, none of these men are violent or particularly effective in any way. The group includes Michaelis, a gentle idealist who’s out on parole after being imprisoned for his involvement a robbery Ossipon, a medical school dropout obsessed with pseudo-scientific theories and Yundt, a would-be terrorist. Verloc meets regularly with a revolutionary society called The Future of the Proletariat. Vladimir recommends staging an attack on “science” by bombing the Greenwich Observatory. The bombing will be attributed to anarchists, which will turn public opinion against these revolutionaries. To keep his job, Verloc must give the complacent English “a jolly good scare” by instigating a terrorist bombing. Verloc has been secretly employed by the embassy as an undercover agent for 11 years, but Vladimir believes that Verloc has grown lazy and isn’t earning his keep.

Verloc attends a meeting at a foreign embassy with a secretary named Mr. She married Verloc seven years ago because he had the money and willingness to support her, Stevie, and their sickly, widowed mother. Winnie looks after Stevie, who is mentally disabled, as if he’s her son. Adolf Verloc, a shopkeeper in his forties, heads out into the London streets one morning, leaving his business in the hands of his wife, Winnie, and Winnie’s brother Stevie.

The secret agent a simple tale