When you read Ian McEwan's most recent novel, Amsterdam , you'll understand why it won the Booker Prize. When you read his earlier works, you'll wonder why he didn't win it sooner. The four McEwan novels--Booker Prize-winning Amsterdam , Enduring Love , Black Dogs , and The Innocent --included in this Reading Group Companion, showcase the author's range and skill as he delivers unlikely, and welcome, combinations of suspense, ethics, philosophy, and political and religious ideology. In lesser hands, such a mix might be lethal. In McEwan's, it's intoxicating.