The Innocent
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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 |
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Dimensions | 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 240 |
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Year Published | 1998-9-3 |
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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 |
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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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