The Secret Agent Characters

Despicable HimAh, good ol' Verloc, the main character of The Secret Agent. A guy who makes his money two ways: by snitching on his friends and by running a pornography shop. How's that for being an...

The MartyrWinnie Verloc is the loyal and devoted wife of Adolph Verloc… although really her devotion to her husband never really goes beyond what's necessary to make sure Adolph keeps taking care...

The Compassionate OneStevie, Winnie Verlocs mentally disabled brother, keeps getting taken advantage of by all the jerks and posers of the modern world. There's probably no point that Conrad smashe...

Full-Blown Psychopath?In clinical terms, the Professor is a straight-up narcissistic psychopath. The book describes him as being very short, frail, and ugly-looking, but the dude is still totally c...

Phrenology, Wha?Ossipon is a former medical student (a dropout, in other words), who writes pamphlets that promote radical political ideas. He also gets by financially by having a bunch of sugar ma...

To Catch a ThiefInspector Heat is a cop who loves the thrill of a good ol' manhunt. He doesn't even dislike criminals, but thinks of them as necessary to society: Thieving was not a sheer absurdity...

Bored BureaucratThe Assistant Commissioner is a young man who's good at playing the game of police bureaucracy, so he's moved up to a position of influence pretty quickly. He's pretty wooden and no...

Stay-PuftMichaelis is known throughout the book as the "ticket-of-leave apostle," because "ticket-of-leave" refers to a man who is released from prison before serving a full sentence. It's like pro...

Vladimir is a cynical guy working at the foreign embassy, and he'll do whatever it takes to make the English police start cracking down on anyone who talks smack about the status quo in Europe. He...