At the beginning of this novel's third section, a chief engineer asserts that nicknames “may be the best record of a success” and compares them to “the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.” A “Secret History” of this novel's setting is the subject of a 2007 novel (15[1])by Juan Gabriel Vásquez. (15[2])The author's note to this novel cites the fictional (15[1])book History of Fifty Years of Misrule by a character (15[1])whose daughter Antonia conspires with Father (*) Corbelán to expand the Occidental Republic. Isolation on San Isabel drives the journalist Martin Decoud mad in this novel, (10[1])in which the revolutionary General Montero's invasion of Sulaco (-5[1])imperils Charles Gould's mine. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this (10[1])novel by Joseph Conrad (10[6])whose “incorruptible” title character hides a load of silver off the coast of Costaguana. ■END■ (0[3])