Ken Follett, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-05891-3
Follett's new thriller (after Eye of the Needle, The Key to Rebecca) involves cut-throat treachery and mixed-up romances. Jane and Ellis, Americans in Paris, are lovers, but she breaks with him when she learns he's a CIA agent, informing on...
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Ken Follett, Author Signet $7.99 (983p) ISBN 978-0-451-16689-0
Set in 12th-century England, the narrative concerns the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge. The ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church...
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Ken Follett, Dutton, $36 (1,008p) ISBN 978-0-525-95165-0
This first in a century-spanning trilogy from bestseller Follett (Eye of the Needle) makes effective and economical use of its lead characters, despite its scope and bulk. From a huge cast, eight figures emerge to play multiple roles that illustrate
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Ken Follett, Author , read by Kate Reading. Penguin $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-280003-4
Time is running out. With D-Day rapidly approaching, the Nazis are actively trying to quash the French resistance. Meanwhile, Britain's Special Operations branch is working hard to supply the resistance with intelligence, supplies and agents....
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Ken Follett. Dutton, $36 (1,120p) ISBN 978-0-525-95309-8
In the ambitious, commanding capstone to his multigenerational Century Trilogy (after Winter of the World), Follett expertly chronicles the pivotal events of the closing decades of the 20th century through the eyes of a vast array of deftly-drawn...
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Ken Follett, Author Scholastic $2.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-42506-3
While exploring an abandoned movie studio, friends Mick and Izzie stumble upon a gang of thieves; PW praised this ``suspenseful, quick-paced mystery'' and the ``detailed, credible plot containing enough facts to challenge, but not baffle, young...
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Ken Follett. Dutton, $36 (960p) ISBN 978-0-525-95292-3
This second installment of Follett’s epic Century trilogy is just as potent, engrossing, and prolix as the opening opus, Fall of Giants. Continuing the histrionics of the five families introduced in Fall, this masterfully conceived novel picks up in
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Ken Follett, Author Crown Publishing Group $25 (405p) ISBN 978-0-517-70176-8
The key to Follett's absorbing new historical novel (after A Dangerous Fortune) lies in words that ``made a slave of every Scottish miner's son'' in the 1700s: ``I pledge this child to work in [the laird's] mines, boy and man, for as long as he is...
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Ken Follett, Author . Dutton $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-94843-8
Bestseller Follett sets his sights on biological terrorism, pumping old-school adrenaline into this new breed of thriller. Ex-policewoman Antonia "Toni" Gallo, head of security at a boutique pharmaceuticals company, has discovered that two...
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Ken Follett, Author , read by Barbara Rosenblat. Penguin Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305707-9
In Follett's latest Le Mans-paced thriller, doses of the possible antidote to a deadly virus are stolen from a small pharmaceutical lab in Scotland, much to the dismay of the lab's security chief, Toni Gallo. Not only is the actual virus...
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Ken Follett, Author . Dutton $35 (1024p) ISBN 978-0-525-95007-3
Eighteen years after Pillars of the Earth
weighed in with almost 1,000 pages of juicy historical fiction about the construction of a 12th-century cathedral in Kingsbridge, England, bestseller Follett returns to 14th-century Kingsbridge with an...
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Ken Follett, Author . Dutton $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-94628-1
Returning to the WWII setting of the novels that made him famous, Eye of the Needle
and The Key to Rebecca, Follett (Code to Zero) delivers a very entertaining, very cinematic thriller about a ragtag, all-female band of British agents, code-named...
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Ken Follett, Author William Morrow & Co Inc $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-04660-6
The opulent interior of the first airliner, the Pan American Clipper, on a transatlantic flight from Southampton, England, to New York in war-darkened 1939, is the setting for Follett's high-flying caper, guaranteed to hold the reader in his seat....
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Ken Follett, Author . Dutton $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-94689-2
Bestselling Welsh author Follett has made a career out of the WWII suspense thriller (Eye of the Needle; Jackdaws), and he hits the mark again with this dramatic and tragic tale of amateur spies pursued by Nazi collaborators in occupied Denmark in...
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Ken Follett, Author Crown Publishing Group $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70296-3
After three consecutive historical sagas (A Dangerous Fortune, etc.), Follett returns to the threshold of the 21st century with a provocative, well-paced and sensational biotech-thriller about the genetic manipulation of human embryos. Striving to...
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Ken Follett, Author Crown Publishing Group $25.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-609-60308-6
After 20 years of writing bestselling novels, Follett is enough of a pro to produce a reliable page-turner from a flimsy premise--as he does here. His working out of how a rural, socially radical California commune moves not heaven but earth to...
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Ken Follett, Author Dutton $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-94563-5
After dabbling in his last few books in historical sagas and various thriller subgenres, Follett returns to his espionage roots with this absorbing, tightly plotted Cold War tale about skullduggery in the early days of the space race. Set in 1958...
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Ken Follett, read by John Lee, Penguin Audio, unabridged, 24 CDs, 30.5 hrs., $59.95 ISBN 978-0-14-242827-6
Using characters from different countries—Russia, Wales, England, the U.S., and Germany—and from different classes, Follett's first book in the Century trilogy provides a compelling mesh of interactions that push the story forward and allow a...
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Ken Follett, Author, Richard E. Grant, Read by , read by Richard E. Grant. Penguin Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-1431-4238-6
Tom Builder's dream is to build a cathedral, but in the meantime, he must scrounge about to find a lord that will hire him. His search pulls him and his family into the politics of 12th-century England, as different lords vie to gain control of
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Ken Follett, Author, Petra Rohr-Rouendaal, Illustrator William Morrow & Company $34.99 (973p) ISBN 978-0-688-04659-0
With this book, Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner, escaping the narrow genre of suspense thrillers to take credit for a historical novel of gripping readability, authentic atmosphere and detail and memorable characterization. Set in...
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Ken Follett, Author, Stephen Marchesi, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $12.95 (88p) ISBN 978-0-688-08721-0
Mick and Izzie must come up with a plan: no one wants the proposed hotel built on the site of the deserted movie studio in West Hinchley. Mick's home would be torn down, and Izzie's father would continue to be out of work. The two boys are exploring
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Ken Follett, Author, Ken Follett, Introduction by William Morrow & Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-05840-1
Originally published under the pseudonym Zachary Stone, this is a happily rediscovered suspense thriller written in the mid-'70s by Follett, the bestselling author of Lie Down with Lions. Its plot, set in London, and intended to show that crime,...
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Ken Follett. Viking, $36 (916p) ISBN 978-0-525-95497-2
Treasonous plots, family rifts, and international political intrigue abound in the third installment of Follett’s (Pillars of the Earth) Kingsbridge series of historical dramas. In the middle of 16th-century England, Kingsbridge Cathedral stands...
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Ken Follett. Viking, $17 (80p) ISBN 978-1-984880-25-3
In this concise and informative work, written to raise money for the restoration of Notre Dame after its recent fire, Follett (Eye of the Needle) focuses on six key dates in the cathedral’s history. These include 1163, when work first began on...
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Ken Follett. Viking, $36 (928p) ISBN 978-0-525954-98-9
Follett delivers a lackluster prequel to his Kingsbridge series. The structure will feel familiar to series devotees; it centers on the intertwined stories of three people: a man who is good with his hands, an attractive noblewoman, and a cleric....
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Ken Follett. Viking, $36 (816p) ISBN 978-0-593-30001-5
In this terrific international thriller from MWA Grand Master Follett (Eye of the Needle), President Pauline Green, a moderate Republican who’s up for reelection, must contend for the nomination with far-right Sen. James Moore, whose macho talk...
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Ken Follett. Viking, $38 (752p) ISBN 978-0-525-95499-6
The fourth entry in Follett’s Kingsbridge series (after A Column of Fire) is another vibrant survey of British history from the perspective of ordinary people, this time spanning from 1792 to 1824. That scope allows Follett to cover the impact of...
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