Author: MCEWAN, IAN
Title: The innocent
Description: London : Cape 1990. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 231 pages; Physical desc. : 231p. ; 24cm. Subject: Espionage - Germany - Berlin - Fiction. Cold War - Fiction. Contempoarary British fiction. Review: In part a thriller. in which the machinations of a top-secret Cold War telephone-tapping operation (the real-life 1955 Operation Gold in Berlin) are investigated and explained. and in part a murder/romance - boy meets girl. boy meets girl's ex-husband. ex-husband meets a graphically sticky end. Concise and controlled; a masterly. evocative page-turner --(Kirkus UK).ISBN: 0224027832. Weight in Kg appr.:

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