The Innocent by Ian McEwan [FIRST EDITION / 1990]

The Innocent by Ian McEwan 

U.S. FIRST EDITION [1990] DOUBLEDAY

Possible book club edition.  Though identical in every way to the First Edition, "first edition" is not stated on copyright page and front panel does not have a price.  

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.   Dust jacket has some shelf wear and creasing to top of spine.   Book itself looks and reads like new. 

Leonard Marnham is assigned to a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin. His intelligence work—tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow—offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. Leonard's relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise 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.