The Innocent A startlingly prescient novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons
by Ian McEwan
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
FictionLiteraryThrillersEspionageHistoricalComing of Age
RELEASED2010
PUBLISHERRandom House
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
The Innocent A startlingly prescient novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons
by Ian McEwan
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
FictionLiteraryThrillersEspionageHistoricalComing of AgePsychologicalPolitical
RELEASED2010
PUBLISHERRandom House
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
