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21%OFFIan McEwan - The Innocent - 9780099277095 - V9780099277095
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The Innocent

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Description for The Innocent Paperback. A true story of the Berlin Tunnel or Operation Gold, the abortive brainchild of the CIA and MI6. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 202.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099277095
SKU
V9780099277095
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About Ian McEwan
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 ... Read more

Reviews for The Innocent
Powerful and disturbing...a tour de force
New York Times
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
Sunday Times
The sheer cleverness of the book is dazzling, and only fully to be appreciated as you turn the last page
London ... Read more

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