The Innocent

McEwan acknowledges his debt to the historian David Martin for the true storyof the Berlin Tunnel or Operation Gold the abortive brainchild of the CIA andMI6. T... » 

McEwan acknowledges his debt to the historian David Martin for the true storyof the Berlin Tunnel or Operation Gold the abortive brainchild of the CIA andMI6. To this truth of savage farce McEwan has impressively and impassivelywedded a fiction of tragedy a love story of a sort of many sorts...The QuietEnglishman Leonard Marnham is not just innocent he is an innocent abroadlodged in the heated poisonous atmosphere of a modern day Jacobean playintriguing and intrigued. Christoper Ricks Sunday Correspondent. «