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.
