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BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR

Lie Down With Lions
Title: Lie Down With Lions
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Jane, a brave ans sensual Englishwoman, is caught in a deadly romantic triangle between rival spies. Love hate and deception sweeps them from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to full-tilt guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan.
A Place Called Freedom
Title: A Place Called Freedom
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A novel of love, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In Scotland, in the winter of 1767, Lizzie Hallim helps a slave escape. From that moment on, in the Old World and the New, their destinies become irrevocably entwined
A Place Called Freedom.
Title: A Place Called Freedom.
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A tale set in scottish coals fields.
Night Over Water
Title: Night Over Water
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Adventure
The Hammer Of Eden
Title: The Hammer Of Eden
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Adventure, 1999
Jackdaws
Title: Jackdaws
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Ken Follett has made his mark as one of the most assured thriller writers in the business, and although his form has faltered of late, Jackdaws shows that he's lost none of his steely skill. The time is May 1944, and Follett takes us into the provincial French town of Sainte-Cecile, suffering under the Nazi yoke for several years as the novel begins. Follett's heroine is the resourceful "Flick", whose real name is Felicity Clairet. She is English, and honoured throughout the town as the wife of Michel, who heads the Resistance circuit based in Rheims. During the day, Flick performs first aid for the townspeople; by night she risks her life alongside her husband in the Resistance. Flick has to persuade herself that she is ready for her most important mission: to inaugurate a fighting team for an attack on a château used as a key Gestapo base--her team (all women, with one exception) are the eponymous "jackdaws". This fresh concept is carried off with the kind of effortless skill that was the distinguishing feature of Follett's best books, and his protagonist Flick is a distinctive, unusual creation. --Barry Forshaw
Hornet Flight
Title: Hornet Flight
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This title is from the master storyteller, a startling new thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance. It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their elderly parents. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Ger't - a rudimentary form of German radar equipment. Arne's relationship with Hermia Mount, an MI6 analyst draws him into underground politics, putting him under surveillance by the Danish security forces - and by one man in particular who has a personal motive to see Arne fall. It is only a matter of time before the brothers' paths converge in a united effortto overcome the Nazis. A disused Hornet Moth biplane is their only means of getting a vital message to the British ...
Jackdaws
Title: Jackdaws
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Audio book, 3 CDs.
The Hammer Of Eden
Title: The Hammer Of Eden
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The governor of California has received a terrorist threat. If the demands are not met, the group will trigger an earthquake in four weeks' time. An FBI expert warns that the individual behind this threat is sane, capable and serious. If he says he can cause an earthquake, he will.
The Man From St. Petersburg
Title: The Man From St. Petersburg
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A political thriller in which a Russian arrives in London to commit a murder that will alter the course of history, and although he has many weapons to hand, the most dangerous of all are the love of a beautiful young woman and the passion of a well-to-do lady who demands satisfaction at any price. By the author of NIGHT OVER WATER.
Code To Zero
Title: Code To Zero
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48 hours that could change the world's political landscape...A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there. He does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken down and out. it isn't until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he begins to suspect all is not what it seems...The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite, in a desperate attempt to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the space race. As Luke Lucas gradually unravels the mystery of his amnesia, he realizes that his fate is bound up with that of the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral.
On Wings Of Eagles
Title: On Wings Of Eagles
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A thriller, based on fact, in which a group of American volunteers, hand-picked by a retired Green Beret officer, are sent to Iran to free the Americans from a heavily guarded prison fortress there, against overwhelming odds of success or survival. From the author of A DANGEROUS FORTUNE and NIGHT OVER WATER.
The Third Twin
Title: The Third Twin
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Dr Jeannie Ferrami has a career in genetics research. Her pioneering programme studies identical twins who have been raised apart, hoping to advance the "nature versus nurture" argument. What long-buried secret is the Ferrami programme on the verge of uncovering?
Code To Zero
Title: Code To Zero
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"Code to Zero's split-second suspense proves that nearly a quarter of a century after his breakthrough novel, Eye of the Needle Follerr is still a hell of a storyteller." -- Entertainment Weekly
Lie Down With Lions
Title: Lie Down With Lions
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A thriller in which a brave and sensual Englishwoman becomes the focus of a deadly romantic triangle when two rival spies vie for her love. From the author of EYE OF THE NEEDLE.
The Shakeout
Title: The Shakeout
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Spy Thriller
The Eye Of The Needle
Title: The Eye Of The Needle
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War Time Thriller Ken Folleyy at his Best
The Pillars Of The Earth
Title: The Pillars Of The Earth
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A story of passion and idealism, which describes a group of men and women in the Middle Ages whose destinies are fatefully linked with the building of a cathedral. In a country torn by civil war, two generations struggle to rise above their primitive circumstances and create something beautiful.
A Place Called Freedom
Title: A Place Called Freedom
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In a brutal world, charismatic rebel miner Mack McAsh - a slave by birth - is a man with the courage to stand up for what is right, and the strength to stick by his beliefs. Independent, rebellious Lizzie Hallim, meanwhile, is engaged to Jay Jamisson, the ruthless landlord's son and heir to an exploitative business empire. Born into separate worlds, Mack and Lizzie are thrown together when Mack becomes an enemy of the state and is forced to flee his homeland. Lizzie aids his escape, and it is not long before passions rage in the old world as well as the new.
A Dangerous Fortune
Title: A Dangerous Fortune
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By the 1860s, the Pilasters are one of the world's greatest banking families, with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However, as the family grow ever richer in the shadow of oppression and tragedy, their very future is threatened - by the self-same ambition and greed that first earned them their fortune.
World Without End
Title: World Without End
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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 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. From the Inside Flap 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 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. From the Back Cover Critical acclaim for the worldwide bestselling epic Pillars of the Earth, voted into the BBC's top 100 of Britain's favourite novels
Jackdaws
Title: Jackdaws
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It is May, 1944 - a time of international tension where nothing is certain. Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail. From the master storyteller and bestselling author of "Eye of the Needle" and "Code to Zero" comes the new thriller, set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action. "Jackdaws" is an irresistible novel of the Resistance and of love, courage and revenge.
Pillars Of The Earth: 10th Anniversary Edition
Title: Pillars Of The Earth: 10th Anniversary Edition
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A timeless story of passion and idealism, "Pillars of the Earth" tells of a group of men and women whose destinies are fatefully linked with the building of a cathedral.
The Pillars Of The Earth
Title: The Pillars Of The Earth
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Tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known; of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul; and of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame.