"Deft, taut fiction. . . . Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best." —Time

"So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting. . . . McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve." —Newsweek

二战后，年轻的英国电子工程师伦纳德被派往德国参与英美合作的情报工程。战后的柏林，满目疮痍，善良单纯的伦纳德在这里邂逅了美丽温柔的德国女子玛丽亚，从而卷入了一个充满爱与性的狂乱世界，色授魂与，不可自拔。命运总是与相爱之人玩笑，一次意外的谋杀后，两人的关系将何去何从？

一段冷战时期的罗曼史，一场二战之后的间谍战，一部惊悚的犯罪心理小说……乱世中的爱情，交织着杀戮与阴谋，炼狱般萧瑟的柏林城中，谁才是真正的无辜者？