The Innocent Av Ian Mcewan

<p><b>Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team</b>.<br><br>Though only a pawn in an international plot, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>''The plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b></p>