EAN: 9780451474025

EDGE OF ETERNITY - KEN FOLLETT TASCHENBUCH

Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic  the Century Trilogy  reaches its sweeping 
passionate conclusion.  In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World  Ken Follett followed the
fortunes of five international families-American  German  Russian  English  and Welsh-as they
made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras
of all: the 1960s through the 1980s  from civil rights  assassinations  mass political
movements  and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall  the Cuban Missile Crisis  presidential impeachment 
revolution-and rock and roll.  East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied
on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest
of their lives. . . . George Jakes  the child of a mixed-race couple  bypasses a corporate law
career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not
only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own.
. . . Cameron Dewar  the grandson of a senator  jumps at the chance to do some official and
unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in  only to discover that the world is a much more
dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin  a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev 
becomes an 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 Warsaw-and into history.  Look out for Ken's newest book  A
Column of Fire  available now.

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