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 by Juan Gabriel Vásquez. (15[1])The author's note to this novel cites the fictional book History of Fifty Years of Misrule by a character 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, in which the revolutionary General Montero's invasion of Sulaco imperils Charles Gould's mine. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this novel by Joseph Conrad (10[2])whose “incorruptible” title character hides a load of silver off the coast of Costaguana. ■END■