The Innocent - Hardcover

McEwan, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224027832 ISBN 13: 9780224027830

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1990

Synopsis

It was 1955 and the corpse of post-war Berlin was crawling with spies. A British Post Office technician began his descent into ever deeper echelons of electronic surveillance beneath the surface of Berlin. The author also wrote "The Child in Time".

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Review:

"The plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense" (Sunday Times)

From the Publisher:

'Crackles like thin ice with suspense' Mail on Sunday
'To call The Innocent a spy novel would be like calling Lord of the Flies a boy's adventure yarn...the plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense...it ensures McEwan's major staus' John Carey, Sunday Times

'Generous in scale, simple in its hideous impact...Ironically, he has celebrated the obsequies of East-West spy thriller by writing one of the subtlest' David Hughes, Mail on Sunday

'The sheer cleverness of the book is dazzling, and only fully to be appreciated as you turn the last page: but then cleverness is a real virtue here, the best guide possible to the questionable territory between innocence and whatever comes after' Michael Wood, London Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0224027832
• ISBN 13: 9780224027830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 229