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      The Innocent

      by Ian McEwan
      Published
      May 1990
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      Suspense Suspense
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      288
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      A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this "wholly entertaining" work (The Wall Street Journal) from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.

      Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham's intelligence work—tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow—offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. His relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening—a night when Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Literary

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      Sep 1991 Bantam ISBN13 9780553550009 ISBN10 0553550004
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      Dec 1990 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9781560540649 ISBN10 1560540648
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