Ken Follett

In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious conflict dividing the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth....

Follows the fates of five interrelated families -- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh -- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." —The Huffington Post

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with...

"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...

"It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined: A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when the only home he's ever known is raided...

Ken Follett and the intrigue of World War II—"a winning formula" (Entertainment Weekly) if ever there was one. With his riveting prose and unerring instinct for suspense, the #1 New York Times bestselling author takes to the skies over Europe during the early days of the war in a most extraordinary novel. . . . 
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the...

Mick erkundet mit seinem besten Freund Izzie das Gelände eines alten Filmstudios. Bevor es abgerissen werden soll, wollen sie es noch einmal genauer unter die Lupe nehmen. Aber was sie dort zu sehen bekommen, verschlägt den beiden den Atem...

Ken Follett Der Mann aus St. Petersburg gelesen von Christoph Wortberg London, 1914: Über Europa ziehen dunkle Wolken auf. Fürst Orlow verhandelt im Auftrag des Zaren mit den Briten über eine Militärallianz gegen Deutschland. Felix Kschessinsky, jahrelang in zaristischen Lagern gefangen, weiß von der Mission. Sein Fazit: Orlow muß sterben. Sein Mordplan scheint zu glücken. Doch ehe Felix sein Opfer erreicht, hört er den Schrei einer Frau:...

One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari had engineered the European crime of the century. A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut - from the inside - with a note left behind that read, "Without guns, without violence, without hate." Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system into the bank, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine, and clearing millions of dollars...