At the beginning of this novel's third section, a chief engineer asserts that nicknames “may be the best record of a success” (-5[1])and compares them to “the face of a joke upon the body of (15[3])a truth.” (15[2])A “Secret History” of this novel's setting is the subject of a 2007 novel (15[1])by Juan Gabriel Vásquez. (15[1])The (15[1])author's note to (15[1])this novel cites the fictional book History of Fifty Years of Misrule by a character whose daughter Antonia conspires with (10[1])Father (*) Corbelán to expand the Occidental (10[1])Republic. (10[1])Isolation on San Isabel drives the journalist Martin Decoud mad in this novel, in which the revolutionary General Montero's invasion of Sulaco (-5[1])imperils Charles Gould's (10[1])mine. (10[1])For 10 points, name this novel by Joseph Conrad (10[1])whose “incorruptible” title character hides (10[1])a load of silver off the coast of Costaguana. ■END■ (0[3])