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The Innocent

by Ian McEwan · December 1997

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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".

FictionBritishTunnelsMan-woman relationshipsCold WarLiteratureEspionageMan-woman relationships, fictionGermany, fictionFiction, espionageFiction, romance, generalNannies