Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy

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Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. Masterfully sweeping stories . . . political intrigue, amorous episodes, suspense, and drama. History comes to life.” The man tells a story so well. . . . Follett can make things glow with some beautifully written episodes. . . . If you read Volume I, you’ll have to read Volume II. And once you read Volume II, you’ll be committed to reading Volume III. See you in a couple of years.” Born on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995. John Lee is a great narrator. He adds a depth to the story and proves quite enjoyable to listen to.

Follett tells his stories by placing readers into bedrooms, boardrooms, even at the Berlin Wall as it comes down. He’s masterly at juggling complex plot lines with a mix of real world leaders and fictional characters who are spread throughout Eastern and Western Europe and the United States.

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Unlike the first two volumes, which gave considerable attention to British politics and charted the rise of the British Labor Party to prominence, culminating with the party's victory under Clement Attlee in 1945, this subject is nearly absent from the present volume. In the course of the book's plot, most British characters move to the United States and become involved in its politics, rather than the British ones. For example, the 1979 elections victory of Margaret Thatcher gets no reference at all in the book, though it happened in the period covered by it.

One of the most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen, Hedy Lamarr also designed a secret weapon against Nazi Germany.Ken’s new book, The Evening and the Morning, will be published in September 2020. It is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth and is set around the year 1,000, when Kingsbridge was an Anglo-Saxon settlement threatened by Viking invaders. Ken Follett’s masterpiece, EDGE OF ETERNITY, is the third and final installment in his CENTURY TRILOGY. But, be of good cheer! New readers to the trilogy or, indeed, even that small handful of readers who have yet to sample Ken Follett’s magnificent mountain of literary achievement, will be pleased to know it reads just fine as a stand-alone novel. In summary, it is nothing less than a fictionalized version of the 20th Century after World War II and the events leading up to and through the world’s hair’s breadth avoidance of all out nuclear war as the Cold War between the USA and the USSR unfolded. In East Germany, teacher Rebecca Hoffmann finds her entire life has been a lie as she is targeted by the secret police, even as her younger brother, Walli, dreams of escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain. In Russia, activist Tania Dvorkin narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news-sheet, her actions all the more perilous because her brother, Dimka, is an emerging star of the Communist Party. and in the United States George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration and fierce supporter of the civil rights movement, boards a Greyhound bus in Washington with Verena, an employee of Martin Luther King whom he is in love with, to protest against segregation.