His historical novels are a classic staple of every library, online retailer, and second-hand bookstore.įrom his very early works, such as “The Eye of the Needle” to his popular Kingsbridge series, Follett knows how to create a page-turner.ĭuring his 40-year writing career, Ken Follet has penned more than 38 fiction and nonfiction books.īut this successful author started his career originally as a reporter for his small hometown newspaper.Īfter he moved to London, he worked for a publishing house. How Historically Accurate Is Pillars Of The Earth? Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now.6.3. Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw-and into history.

Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution-and rock and roll.Įast German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they made their way through the twentieth century. Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion.

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