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Abridged edition. Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's breakthrough masterpiece, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and one brave woman. Victory Hangs in the Balance 1944. In the weeks leading up to D-Day, the Allies are...

Abridged edition. A chilling story of hidden evil, The Third Twin is a heart-stopping, spine-tingling novel from master storyteller and author of Never, Ken Follett. An Impossible Result Jeannie Ferrami, a scientific researcher investigating the behaviour of identical twins who have been raised...

Britain has just declared war against Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most luxurious airliner, the Pan American Clipper, takes off on its final flight to neutral New York – a haven for those fleeing the conflict.

Abridged edition. Code to Zero is a fast-paced thriller about the satellite space race in the Cold War, from the master of suspense and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. A Man with No Memory A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped...

Abridged edition. Triple is the story of the most successful espionage coup of the twentieth century. This taut espionage thriller comes from the master of the genre, Ken Follett. A Frightening Discovery 1968. The fledgling nation of Israel is threatened when the intelligence services find out...

Londen, begin 1914: zijn naam is Feliks. Hij is naar Londen gekomen om een moord te plegen die de loop van de geschiedenis voorgoed zal veranderen. Feliks is een meester in het manipuleren, en heeft vele andere wapens tot zijn beschikking. Maar zijn tegenstanders zijn de voltallige Engelse politie, een briljante en invloedrijke lord, en de jonge Winston Churchill zelf. Tegen zo'n overmacht is niemand opgewassen – behalve de man van St. Petersburg.

Meesterverteller Follett weet als geen ander rijke historische details te verweven met het leven van alledag. Kingsbridge, 1792. De industriële revolutie is in volle gang, en alles moet sneller en goedkoper kunnen, zonder dat er rekening gehouden wordt met het welzijn van de mensen die al deze nieuwe machines moeten bedienen. Ook doemt er een oorlog op aan de horizon met Napoleon Bonaparte die steeds meer macht krijgt en wordt Kingsbridge verontrust in de gaten gehouden door alle buurlanden.

"Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack 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."

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.