Edge of Eternity
- Authors: Ken Follett
- Series: Book 3 in the Century Trilogy series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Historical
- Rank:Top 10 in Best Family Saga Fiction on AmazonTop 50 in Best Multigenerational Fiction on AmazonTop 100 in Best Historical Fiction Books on Amazon
- Rating: 4.3 based on 72,516 reviews
- Release Date: September 16, 2014
- Print length: 1120 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating and hugely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, this is a compulsive, gripping blockbuster about the fight for personal freedom set during the Cold War.
A FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE
1961, 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.
A RISING TIDE OF DANGER
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.
A COLD WAR THAT COULD ELIMINATE THE WORLD FOREVER
In a sweeping tale that began in 1911, the descendants of five families will now find their true destiny as they fight for their individual freedom in a world facing the mightiest clash of superpowers it has ever seen.
*Ken Follett's Column of Fire was an instant Sunday Times HB bestseller when it published in 2017
Praise for Edge of Eternity
Follett does an outstanding job of interweaving and personalizing complicated narratives set on a multicultural stage.
A glorious conclusion to a remarkable trilogy that is wonderful, exhilarating reading for all ages. Fine, fine historical fiction.
Follett never forgets he is telling a story. The historical events are the backdrop but the characters are the focal point. Good storytellers know this and Follett is an excellent one.
Follett... knows how to turn in a robust yarn without too much slack... a well-written entertainment.
Worth the wait... . Once again, Follett has written pitch-perfect popular fiction that readers will devour.
Hugely ambitious, the trilogy serves as a massive history lesson as well as an example of good, old-fashioned storytelling.
Mesmerizing... flowing with spicy, expertly paced melodrama, character-rich exploits, familial histrionics, and international intrigue.
Edge of Eternity is as compulsively readable a mighty page-turner as its two predecessors.
[Follett] is a commanding storyteller who has taken on an impossibly large task and accomplished it with passion, intelligence, and skill. Like its predecessors, Edge of Eternity is a solid, rigorously researched work of popular fiction. It's an honest entertainment that brings back vivid, sometimes painful, memories of the not-too-distant past.
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