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The Innocent

Written by: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins
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Publisher's Summary

War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him and the listener into a new type of story that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
©1990 Ian McEwan (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLC
Espionage Suspense Psychological
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What the critics say

"McEwan's name will be on everyone's lips with his startling new novel, an impeccably constructed psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War....McEwan's neat, tensile prose raises this book to the highest level of the genre." (Publishers Weekly)
"A tour de force of horror and philosophical suspense." (The New York Times)
"So exhaustively suspenseful....It should be devoured at one sitting." (Newsweek)
"McEwan...a breathtaking master...has written a blueprint for the future of the genre." (Time)

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great read

Certainly worth reading.
great performance too.
I strongly recommend this book. it is engaging, sad, a bit grotesque, and fun.

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