Edge of Eternity: The Gripping, Epic Novel From International No.1 Bestseller Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, 3, Band 3)

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 segrega tion. 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 EAN: 9781035034260 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 15.08.2024 Titel der Reihe: Century Trilogy#3# Autoren: Follett, Ken Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 1184 Themenüberschrift: FICTION / Thrillers / Historical Keyword: 20th century; historical fiction; thriller; cold war; Soviet Union; USSR; communism; America; Cuban Missle Crisis; Civil Rights Movement; Martin Luther King; espionage; Russia; spies; century trilogy book 3; Russia; spies; century trilogy book 3 Fachschema: Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~DDR / Roman, Erzählung~Deutsche Geschichte / 20. Jahrhundert~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Generationenromane - Familiensagas~Ostdeutschland / Roman, Erzählung, Essay Fachkategorie: Historische Kriminalromane~Politthriller/Justizthriller~Generationenromane, Familiensagas~Historischer Roman~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Politik Altersempfehlung / Lesealter: 18 ab Alter: 18 Imprint-Titels: Pan Books Länge: 197 mm Breite: 134 mm Höhe: 55 mm Gewicht: 809 gr Produktform: Kartoniert Genre: Importe