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Reims, maggio 1944. Un gruppo di partigiani francesi tenta l''assalto al castello di Sainte-Cécile, centro nevralgico dell''occupazione tedesca, ma lo spietato maggiore Dieter Frank riesce a respin

Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, oltre alle vicende piu note ed eclatanti, e in corso in Gran Bretagna una guerra di spie. La migliore tra esse e Die Nadel (Lago), cosi soprannominato sia per essere totalmente invisibile ai servizi segreti inglesi, sia per la sua abitudine ad uccidere con uno stiletto.Gran parte del nostro romanzo e ambientato poche settimane prima del decisivo D-Day. Gli alleati cercano di ingannare lo stato maggiore tedesco circa il luogo dello sbarco, facendo credere tramite controspionaggio e unintera armata giocattolo che esso si svolgera a Calais. Molti tra i pezzi grossi tedeschi cadono nella trappola, ma non Hitler, che da personalmente a Die Nadel limportantissima missione di far luce sui piani alleati.Questa missione raggiunge importanza vitale per lesito della guerra, infatti se gli alleati venissero ricacciati in mare le conseguenze del massacro sarebbero devastanti. Di questo ne sono a conoscenza sia Die Nadel, che fara di tutto per portare notizie in Germania, sia gli agenti Bloggs e Godliman, incaricati di catturare la spia, viva o morta. Ne scaturira una caccia alluomo attraverso tutta lisola, condita da numerosi omicidi e colpi di scena.Nel frattempo Lucy vive una vita priva di soddisfazioni col marito menomato ed il figlio di 3 anni su unisola della scozia praticamente disabitata, chiamata LIsola Della Tempesta. Quale sara il suo ruolo allinterno della narrazione? Una coraggiosa ragazza risultera decisiva per la vittoria della guerra?

TV tie-in edition of Ken Follett''s worldwide bestselling epic masterpieceOn the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed.As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day.Ken Folletts masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.

Desde la publicación de Los pilares de la Tierra en 1989 millones de lectores de Ken Follett a lo largo de todo el mundo han esperado ansiosamente este libro. Un mundo sin fin está ambientado en la misma ciudad de Kingsbridge, dos siglos despues de la construccion de su majestuoso templo gotico. La catedral y el priorato vuelven a formar la base de esta magnifica historia de amor y de odio, de ambicion y de venganza, con el fondo amenazador de la Peste Negra que aniquilo a la mitad de la poblacion europea. Intriga, asesinatos, hambruna, plagas y guerras. Un retrato admirable del mundo medieval y una novela extraordinaria que aporta una nueva dimension a la ficcion historica.

The epic final volume in the Century trilogy.As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion, five families from across the globe are brought together in an unforgettable tale of passion and conflict during the Cold War.When Rebecca Hoffmann, a teacher in East Germany, finds herself pursued by the secret police, she discovers that she has been living a lie. Her younger brother, Walli, longs to escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain to become part of the burgeoning music scene.In the United States, George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration, is a fierce supporter of the Civil Rights movement - as is the woman he is in love with, Verena, who works for Martin Luther King, Jr. Boarding a Greyhound bus in Washington to protest against segregation, they begin a fateful journey together.Russian activist, Tania Dvorkin, narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news sheet. Her actions are made all the more perilous as her brother, Dimka, is a rising star in the heart of the Communist Party in the Kremlin.From the deep south of America to the vast expanses of Siberia, from the shores of Cuba to the swinging streets of Sixties London, Ken Follett''s Edge of Eternity is a sweeping tale of the fight for individual freedom in a world gripped by the mightiest clash of superpowers anyone has ever known.

A thrilling story of fact and fiction from Ken Follett, master of suspense.When Ross Perot, millionaire head of the Dallas-based company EDS, discovered that two of his key men had been jailed in Iran, he turned to the one person who could help. Colonel ''Bull'' Simons, famed World War II and Vietnam commando, agreed to do what the US government would not - go in and get the men out.On Wings of Eagles is the gripping account of an incredible real-life rescue carried out by a Green Beret colonel and a group of corporate executives who were hastily trained to form a fighting team. In this extraordinary story Ken Follett weaves together a secret penetration of a highly dangerous territory, a dramatic jailbreak, and a harrowing overland escape to the Turkish border - made all the more extraordinary by the fact that it is true.

Three deadly enemies... one impossible espionage mission to bring them down.Triple is the story of the most successful espionage coup - and best-kept secret - of this century. This taut espionage thriller comes from master of the genre, Ken Follett.It is 1968. Israeli intelligence has learned that Egypt, with Soviet help, will develop atomic bombs within months - an untimely end for the young nation unless a source of uranium for Israeli bombs can be had in complete secrecy. Impossible, of course, unless someone as improbable as the plan can be found to steal it.Working alone, Israeli agent Nat Dickstein concocts an ingenious scenario for the biggest, and quietest, hijacking in history. Against him are the Russian KGB, Egyptian Intelligence and the Arab extremist Fedayeen. With him is a half-English, half-Arab young woman of uncertain allegiance, who discovers Dickstein''s Achilles heel...

VOM BAU DER MAUER BIS ZU IHREM FALL - Die groe Familiensaga vom Autor der Bestseller STURZ DER TITANEN und WINTER DER WELT.Deutschland nach dem Mauerbau: Rebecca Hoffmanns Welt in Ostberlin scheint in Ordnung zu sein - bis sie durch Zufall erfahrt, dass der eigene Mann sie seit Jahren im Auftrag der Stasi bespitzelt. Als sie ihn zur Rede stellt, begeht sie einen verhangnisvollen Fehler, den sie und ihre Familie ihr Leben lang bereuen sollen.In den USA erlebt George Jakes als Vertrauter von Justizminister Robert Kennedy hautnah den Kampf der Burgerrechtsbewegung gegen Rassismus, Intoleranz und Ungerechtigkeit - und bekommt am eigenen Leib zu spuren, was es heit, ein Farbiger zu sein.Cameron Dewar ist Republikaner, aber auch er kampft unbeirrt fur seine Uberzeugungen. Als CIA-Agent muss er sich in einer Welt aus Tauschung, Lugen und Intrigen zurechtfinden. Ahnlich geht es Dimka Dworkin, dem jungen Berater von Nikita Chruschtschow, als sich Sowjetunion und USA in einen Konflikt sturzen, der die Welt an den Rand des Atomkriegs fuhrt.Seine Schwester Tanja begibt sich als Journalistin an die Brennpunkte des Geschehens, von Moskau uber Kuba bis nach Prag und Warschau - dorthin, wo Weltgeschichte geschrieben wird.Der in sich abgeschlossene Roman erzahlt die miteinander verbundenen Schicksale von Menschen aus Ost und West vor dem Hintergrund der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Umwalzungen vom Anfang der Sechziger- bis zum Ende der Achtzigerjahre.100 Jahre nach dem Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs, 75 Jahre nach dem Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs, 50 Jahre nach der Aufhebung der Rassentrennung in den USA, 25 Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer bringt Ken Follett seine Jahrhundert-Trilogie zu einem packenden und furiosen Finale.