The Innocent - Hardcover

McEwan, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0886192714 ISBN 13: 9780886192716

Publisher: Lester & Orprn Dennys, 2002

Synopsis

Bound in the publisher's original black quarter cloth, and grey boards, spine stamped in gilt.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.

Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life -- and to lose his unwanted innocence.

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.
From the Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover:

"Works as a time bob, waiting to go off... A tour de force of horror and philosophical suspense."

-- The New York Times

"So exhaustively suspenseful...it should be devoured at one sitting." -- Newsweek

"A gripping, absolutely unique story of love and suspense that you won't forget." -- Joseph Wambaugh

"McEwan...a breathtaking master...has written a blueprint for the future of the genre." -- Time

About this edition

• Publisher: Lester & Orprn Dennys
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0886192714
• ISBN 13: 9780886192716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270