The horror!"
In one novel by this author, The Professor always carries a suicide bomb, and Verloc is tasked with destroying the Greenwich Observatory. In another work by this author, Charles Gould uses his money to support Ribiera's dictatorship of Costaguana. As well as The Secret Agent and Nostromo, this author wrote of a sailor who abandons a sinking ship on its way to Mecca. The narrator of that work by this author finds a note reading "Exterminate all the brutes" in a novel describing an insane ivory trader on the Congo River, whose last words are "The horror! The horror!" For 10 points, name this author of Lord Jim who wrote of Marlow and Kurtz in Heart of Darkness.
In one novel by this author, The Professor always carries a suicide bomb, and Verloc is tasked with destroying the Greenwich Observatory.
Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski]