Сластена by Ian McEwan

A shy Cambridge graduate is recruited by a British intelligence unit to use her connections in the literary world as cover for a clandestine cultural-influence operation; she is assigned to cultivate a promising young novelist, and a passionate personal relationship develops that complicates the original mission. As the boundaries between political manipulation, artistic integrity and intimate truth blur, she must confront the consequences of deceit—both state-ordered and self-imposed—on love, identity and the value of storytelling.