
The Innocent
by Ian McEwan
1990 · thriller & suspense · adult
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Set in 1 place · 1 primarySense of Place
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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".
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