The Innocent cover

The Innocent

2005384 pages
Mood
Wry, Contemplative
Protagonist
Father Brown, third-person
Parental Rating
PG
Pace
Episodic

Themes & atmosphere

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In 1955, twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham flies to occupied Berlin to install tape recorders in a joint Anglo-American spy tunnel that taps Soviet phone lines. He meets Maria, a German divorcee five years older than him. The novel follows their love affair and a single bad night in her flat.

Multiple novels share this title. The most commonly searched is The Innocent by Harlan Coben (2005), a standalone Harlan Coben thriller separate from his Myron Bolitar series.

Yes. Netflix released a Spanish-language adaptation of The Innocent in 2021, transposing the story to Barcelona. It is part of Netflix's broader Harlan Coben adaptation deal.

The Innocent is 208 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.

At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Innocent takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.

The Innocent is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.

The Innocent is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.