The Innocent (McEwan novel) > The novel takes place in 1955–56 Berlin at the beginning of the Cold War and centres on the joint CIA/MI6 Operation Gold, to buil

The Innocent (McEwan novel) > The novel takes place in 1955–56 Berlin at the beginning of the Cold War and centres on the joint CIA/MI6 Operation Gold, to build a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin into the Russian sector to tap phone lines of the Soviet High Command. Leonard Marnham is a 25-year-old Englishman who sets up and repairs the tape recorders used in the tunnel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocent_(McEwan_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocent_(McEwan_novel)