The Innocent

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Description

Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.Though only a pawn in an international plot, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life.The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman.It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening; a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he’s willing to shed.’The plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense’ Sunday Times

Additional information

Weight 0.197 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

240

Publisher

Year Published

1998-9-3

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099277093

About The Author

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.

Powerful and disturbing…a tour de force

Other text

To call The Innocent a spy novel would be like calling Lord of the Flies a boy's adventure yarn…it ensure McEwan's major status

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