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A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S.

Scientist Jeannie Ferrami stumbles across a baffling mystery: Steve and Dan appear to be identical twins but were born on different days, to different mothers. One is a law student, the other a convicted murderer. They seem a world apart, but as Jeannie begins to fall in love with Steve, she finds her professional - and personal - future threatened.

Judy's boss has a grudge against her, so he gives her a dumb assignment: to investigate an anonymous threat from a group that claims that it can trigger earthquakes. Judy's research leads her to maverick seismologist Michael Quercus, who tells her it is possible for an earthquake to be caused deliberately. And when a tremor in a remote desert area shows signs of being machine-generated, Judy knows he was right. But who is responsible for the earthquake? Judy must find out before another tremor strikes. 

Two weeks before D-day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded, and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the Jackdaws, and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail....

In Paper Money three seemingly unrelated events occur on a single morning in London. An MP wakes up after spending the night with a beautiful young woman. A tycoon meets a leading Bank of England official for breakfast. And an underworld gang boss briefs his crew. Nothing so far to keep the tabloid editors awake. Until ambitious young reporter Kevin Hart uncovers his first promising link....

Modigliani. Unarguably one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Modigliani's women. Those elongated, haunting figures, as eternally provocative as the Mona Lisa. And Modigliani's missing masterpiece. A priceless lost treasure - or a chillingly dangerous game? In Ken Follett's gripping thriller The Modigliani Scandal, up and coming artist Peter Usher has still to exhibit anywhere, still to make even the most modest mark on the London art scene.

Set in the turbulent times of 12th century England where civil war, famine, religious strife, and battles over royal succession tore lives and families apart, The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of the building of a magnificent cathedral. Against this richly imagined backdrop, filled with intrigue and treachery, Ken Follett draws the reader irresistibly into a wonderful epic of family drama, violent conflict, and unswerving ambition.

La revolución está en el aire. 1792. Un gobierno despótico está decidido a convertir Inglaterra en un poderoso imperio comercial. Y, desde el otro lado del mar, suenan tambores de guerra mientras Napoleón Bonaparte comienza su ascenso al poder y prepara un violento plan para convertirse en emperador del mundo. Kingsbridge se asoma al abismo. Los nuevos avances industriales se imponen de manera implacable, sacudiendo las vidas de los trabajadores de las prósperas fábricas textiles de Kingsbridge. Las máquinas abren un mundo de oportunidades ligado, sin embargo, a la crueldad más despiadada.

Born of his admiration for an an iconic cathedral and how it has influenced his own work, this short book about Notre Dame’s history is Ken Follett’s contribution to the fund created to help rebuild it, a fund that will increase with every sale that is made of the book. Ken Follett will be donating 100 percent of his royalties to the charity La Fondation du Patrimoine.  

Los Pilares de la Tierra es la obra maestra de Ken Follett y constituye una excepcional evocación de una época de violentas pasiones. El gran maestro de la narrativa de acción y suspense nos transporta a la Edad Media, a un fascinante mundo de reyes, damas, caballeros, pugnas feudales, castillos y ciudades amuralladas. El amor y la muerte se entrecruzan vibrantemente en este magistral tapiz cuyo centro es la construcción de una catedral gótica.

The saga that has enthralled the millions of fans of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire. Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed. The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in turmoil as high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty and love.

Mistery, storia d'amore, grande rievocazione storica: in quella che è un'opera tra le sue più ambiziose e acclamate, Ken Follett ci trasporta nell'Inghilterra medievale al tempo della costruzione di una cattedrale. Intreccio, azione e passioni si sviluppano così sullo sfondo di un'era ricca di intrighi e cospirazioni, pericoli e minacce, guerre civili, carestie, conflitti religiosi e lotte politiche.

Berlin, 1961. Rebecca Hoffmann erfährt durch Zufall, dass ihr Mann bei der Stasi arbeitet, und damit bricht ihre ganze Welt zusammen. Ihr Schicksal - und das eines ganzen Volkes - scheint besiegelt, als die Regierung eine Mauer erbauen lässt, die jede Flucht unmöglich machen soll. Doch weder Rebecca, noch ihre Kinder geben auf! Und sie bleiben nicht alleine...Boston, 1961. George Jake und Verena Marquand, zwei junge Schwarze, erfahren am eigenen Leib, was Rassendiskriminierung bedeutet - und wie falsch angebliche Freunde sein können. Wem kann man in einer von Misstrauen und Vorurteilen beherrschten Gesellschaft trauen, wem nicht.

Nach "Die Säulen der Erde" und "Die Tore der Welt" der neue große historische Kingsbridge-Roman des internationalen Bestsellerautors Ken Follett. Noch immer wacht die altehrwürdige Kathedrale von Kingsbridge über die Stadt. Doch die ist im Widerstreit zwischen Katholiken und Protestanten zutiefst gespalten. Freundschaft, Loyalität, Liebe... nichts scheint mehr von Bedeutung zu sein. Die wahren Feinde sind dabei nicht die rivalisierenden Konfessionen.

It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, unite in an effort to overcome the Nazis. A disused Hornet Moth biplane is their only means of getting a vital message to the British.

Veinte años después de la publicación de Los pilares de la Tierra, Ken Follett vuelve al fascinante mundo de Kingsbridge para presentar a sus lectores un retrato admirable del mundo medieval y una magnífica saga épica que aporta una nueva dimensión a la ficción histórica.

His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle. He is Henry Faber, a coldly professional killer and Germany's most feared deep-cover agent in Britain. His task: to discover the Allies' plans for D-Day and get them to Germany at all costs. It's a task he undertakes with customary relish and ruthlessness - until he encounters Storm Island and a woman named Lucy.

Ser minero del carbón en la Escocia del siglo XVIII significaba servidumbre y sufrimiento. Por eso Mack McAsh se enfrentó a su amo, lo que le obligó a huir. Para el joven comenzó una odisea, que le llevó a Londres y luego a las colonias de América del Norte, convertidas más que nunca en esperanza de libertad.

Net Dickstein, uno de los mejores agentes secretos israelíes, tiene una misión crucial: hacer desaparecer el barco que transporta el uranio que Egipto necesita para poseer la bomba atómica. Ciertamente una misión casi imposible, ya que egipcios y palestinos no están dispuestos a contemplar pasivamente cómo se esfuma su gran baza para inclinar a su favor el conflicto de Oriente Medio. Una novela electrizante a partir de un suceso real.

Escucha la historia de Dee, una joven historiadora del arte que descubre la posible existencia de un raro cuadro de Amedeo Modigliani, uno de los más célebres pintores de la contemporaneidad. Sus sospechas la llevan a pensar que la obra puede hallarse en un pequeño pueblo italiano. Ante la perspectiva de un descubrimiento extraordinario, Dee informa a su tío Charles, un galerista londinense.