The glamour and romance of the glittering thirties is darkened for ever by the outbreak of the Second World War.
Ken Follett was twenty-seven when he wrote Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller. He then surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth, about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages, which continues to captivate millions of readers all over the world and its long-awaited sequel, World Without End, was a number one bestseller in the US, UK and Europe and was followed by the third novel in the Kingsbridge series A Column of Fire. He has written the bestselling Century trilogy, which comprises Fall of Giants, Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity.
Master storyteller
*The Times*
Master of the romantic thriller
*Daily Telegraph*
The opulent interior of the first airliner on a transatlantic
flight from England to New York in war-darkened 1939 is the setting
for Follett's high-flying caper, guaranteed to hold the reader in
their seat . . . the master of epic suspense spins an
excruciatingly taut drama, a whirlwind of romance and intrigue . .
. His best since Eye of the Needle
*Publishers Weekly*
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