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In the sweeping, passionate conclusion to The Century Trilogy, following Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, five international familiesAmerican, German, Russian, English, and Welshcome to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers shes been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive actGeorge Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedys Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of the civil rights battleCameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than hed imaginedDimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Krushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsawand into history.

The award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller and a distinguished film and launched the career of master storyteller Ken Follett.His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle.He is Hitler's prize undercover agent - a cold and professional killer.It is 1944 and weeks before D-Day. The Allies are disguising their invasion plans with a phoney armada of ships and planes. Their plan would be ruined if an enemy agent found out... and then The Needle does just that. Hunted by MI5, he leads a murderous trail across Britain to a waiting U-Boat. But he hasn't planned for a storm-battered island, and the remarkable young woman who lives there...Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's breakthrough international bestseller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and a brave woman.

El llindar de l'eternitat tanca aquesta trilogia i la crònica d'un segle turbulent. Relata la història íntima i personal de tres generacions de cinc famílies marcades per dues guerres mundials, la

El umbral de la eternidad cierra esta gran trilogía y la crónica de un siglo turbulento. En ella vivimos la historia íntima y personal de tres generaciones de cinco familias cuyas vidas estuvieron marcadas por dos guerras mundiales, la Revolucion rusa, la Guerra Civil española y la Guerra Fria, junto con los profundos cambios sociales que las acompañaron.Tercer volumen de la trilogia The CenturyEn el año 1961 Rebecca Hoffmann, profesora en Alemania del Este y nieta de Lady Maud, descubrira que la policia secreta esta vigilandola. Mientras, su hermano menor, Walli, sueña con huir a Occidente para convertirse en musico de rock.Por otro lado, Georges Jakes, un joven abogado que trabaja con los hermanos Kennedy, es un activista del movimiento por los derechos civiles de los negros en Estados Unidos que participara en las protestas de los estados del Sur y en la marcha sobre Washigton liderada por Martin Luther King.En Rusia las inclinaciones politicas enfrentan a los hermanos Tania y Dimka Dvorkin. Este se convierte en una de las jovenes promesas del Kremlin mientras su hermana entrara a formar parte de un grupo activista que promueve la insurreccion.A traves de escenas impactantes y protagonistas fascinantes, Ken Follett nos presenta un mundo que pensabamos conocer pero que nunca mas nos parecera lo mismo.La trilogia "The Century" es la historia de mis abuelos y de los vuestros, de nuestros padres y de nuestras propias vidas. De alguna forma es la historia de todos nosotros.Ken FolletLa critica ha dicho...Fascinante... fluye con un dramatismo que te engancha y de un ritmo magistral, hazañas de personajes, histrionismo familiar e intriga internacional.The New York Daily News

The stunning sequel to the international bestseller The Pillars of the Earth Murder, intrigue, plague and pestilence in the stunning sequel to the international bestseller The Pillars of the Earth.On 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.

Un giovane investigatore in erba, Mick Williams, è molto interessato alle vicende di una banda di inafferrabili rapinatori di banche. Ma non sa che presto la sua strada incrocerà la loro. Il suo amico Izzy, infatti, gli insegna come entrare di nascosto negli studi cinematografici Kellerman, un luogo che custodisce tanti segreti, tra cui uno che riguarda proprio la banda dei rapinatori.

Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mothers formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism. He also encounters a group of Germans resolved to oppose Hitler - but are they willing to go so far as to betray their country? Such people are closely watched by Volodya, a Russian with a bright future in Red Army Intelligence. The international clash of military power and personal beliefs that ensues will sweep over them all as it rages from Cable Street in Londons East End to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, from Spain to Stalingrad, from Dresden to Hiroshima. At Cambridge Lloyd is irresistibly drawn to dazzling American socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything his left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert - amateur pilot, party lover and leading light of the British Union of Fascists. Back in Berlin, Carla worships golden boy Werner from afar. But nothing will work out the way they expect as their lives and the hopes of the world are smashed by the greatest and cruellest war in the history of the human race.

On 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 Follett's 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 the 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. 'Follett's storytelling skills keep you compulsively turning the pages to the satisfactory ending of good triumphant over evil' - "Daily Mail".