Rezension: Ian McEwan: “Sweet Tooth”

Unless their protagonists are of the unflappable James Bond mold, novels of the spy genre often feature idealistic and empathic characters becoming cynical and emotionally jaded after one bout too many with a cruel and pitiless world.

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