A character in A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles
A professional spy and informer who testifies against Darnay in England and later turns up as a prison turnkey in Paris; he is secretly Miss Pross's long-lost brother and is blackmailed by Carton into aiding the final rescue.
Also known as: Barsad, Solomon Pross, the spy, the sheep of the prisons
Inside the story
John Barsad is a professional spy and informer who appears in England as a witness against Charles Darnay. He presents himself as a respectable man of evidence and testimony, but his livelihood depends on gathering information and serving those who use it.
A sallow, secretive-looking man of middle age with a somewhat aquiline but not quite straight nose and rather flat cheeks; guarded and shifty in expression.
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