Secret agent

The character of the Secret agent is a common theme in 20th and 21st century popular literature. Similar to the character of the private eye, the secret agent is usually a loner, sometimes amoral, an existential hero[?] operating outside the everyday constraints of society.

Mention Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent[?].

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Real-life secret agents:

• make list here

Fictional secret agents:

• Mr. Verloc[?] in The Secret Agent[?]
• James Bond
• Jerry Cornelius
• Harry Palmer
• Number 6 in The Prisoner
• John Steed[?] and Emma Peel in The Avengers
• La Femme Nikita[?]

Parodies of secrent agents:

• Austin Powers
• In Like Flint[?]
• The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
• Get Smart

See also:

• espionage
• intelligence service