Good storytellers know this and Follett is an excellent one. The historical events are the backdrop but the characters are the focal point.
The New York Daily News Follett never forgets he is telling a story. The Seattle Times Hugely ambitious, the trilogy serves as a massive history lesson as well as an example of good, old-fashioned storytelling. The Washington Post Edge of Eternity is as compulsively readable a mighty page-turner as its two predecessors. It's an honest entertainment that brings back vivid, sometimes painful, memories of the not-too-distant past. Like its predecessors, Edge of Eternity is a solid, rigorously researched work of popular fiction. Praise for Edge of Eternity is a commanding storyteller who has taken on an impossibly large task and accomplished it with passion, intelligence, and skill. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now. 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. Book Synopsis Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion.
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