# The Innocent

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- Book: [The Innocent](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan/the-innocent) ([The Innocent.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan/the-innocent.md))
- Authors: [Ian McEwan](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 55 min
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- ISBN: 978-14-7351-397-6
- Published: 2014-11-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 7 h 55 min

## Description

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life - and to lose his unwanted innocence. 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. 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.