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Ken Follett's The Key to Rebecca took readers and critics by storm when first published more than twenty years ago. Today, it remains one of the best espionage novels ever written. A brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent is on the loose in Cairo. His mission is to send Rommel's advancing army the secrets that will unlock the city's doors. In all of Cairo, only two people can stop him. One is a down-on-his-luck English officer no one will listen to. The other is a vulnerable young Jewish girl...

De alguna manera, los alemanes estan anticipandose a las incursiones aereas de los bombarderos britanicos. Hermia Mount, una inteligente analista britanica, empieza a sospechar de la existencia de una estacion de radar secreta en la costa de Dinamarca. En

Una de las mas vibrantes e imaginativas obras de quien quiza sea el escritor mas leido de la actualidad. Con una trama de la investigacion genetica, unos personajes perfilados y un ritmo trepidante, esta novel esta concebida sencillamente para apasionar.

A Kingsbridge-trilógia 2. kötete, A katedrális folytatása kétszáz évvel később, a 14. században játszódik. A szereplők a katedrális legendás építőinek leszármazottai, akik ugyanúgy küzdenek az élettel, mint elődeik. Az Európán végigsöprő pestisjárvány a hajósok és a kereskedők közvetítése révén felüti fejét az angliai kisvárosban is, és éveken keresztül változatlan erővel tombol, szedi áldozatait. A Benedek-rendi kolostor ispotálya az egyetlen hely a városban, ahol a beteg emberek menedéket kaphatnak. A járvány közepette sem állhat meg azonban az élet: meg kell erősíteni az életveszélyessé vált hidat, a katedrális megroggyant tornyát helyre kell állítani, s az elöljáróságnak és a céheknek biztosítaniuk kell a város működését, megélhetését. Gyilkos indulatok, minden nehézséget áthidaló szerelmek közepette zajlik az élet Kingsbridge-ben. Ez a hatalmas ívű történet filmszerűen pergő cselekménnyel méltó folytatása A katedrálisnak.

Triple is the story of the most successful espionage coup - and best-kept secret - of this century. This taut espionage thriller comes from master of the genre, Ken Follett. A Frightening Discovery 1968. The fledgling nation of Israel is threatened when the intelligence services find out that Egypt is only months away from developing nuclear weapons. An untimely end awaits the young nation unless a source of uranium for Israeli bombs can be obtained in complete secrecy. Impossible, of course, unless someone as improbable as the plan can be found to steal it. A Daring Mission Working alone, Israeli agent Nat Dickstein concocts an ingenious scenario for the biggest, and quietest, hijacking in history. A task made all the more difficult by the factions trying to stop him. Time is Running Out Dickstein plans to steal the uranium and fool the Russian KGB, Egyptian Intelligence and the Arab extremists, the Fedayeen. As the nuclear arms race in the Middle East escalates to frightening proportions, the fate of millions of lives hangs in the balance in this fictionalized account of one of the best-kept secrets of the twentieth century.

A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, FALL OF GIANTS moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece. A MASON WITH A DREAM 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other. A MONK WITH A BURNING MISSION Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, is resourceful, but with money scarce he knows that for his town to survive it must find a way to thrive, and so he makes the decision to build within it the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. A WORLD OF HIGH IDEALS AND SAVAGE CRUELTY As Tom and Philip meet so begins an epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power. In a world beset by strife and enemies that would thwart their plans, they will stop at nothing to achieve their ambitions in a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother ... The Pillars of the Earth is the first in The Kingsbridge Novels series, followed by World Without End and A Column of Fire.

Po Pilířích země a Na věky věků, celosvětově oblíbených historických ságách od bestselleristy Kena Folletta, přichází Ohnivý sloup, třetí rozvětvený příběh zasazený do anglického městečka Kingsbridge, příběh mocných panovníků i jejich nepostradatelných pomocníků, příběh plný intrik, vražd a zrady, ale také lásky, přátelství a naděje. Píše se rok 1558 a Evropu sužují náboženské konflikty. Osmnáctiletý Ned Willard ale v tuto chvíli netouží po ničem jiném než oženit se s Margery Fitzgeraldovou. Jejich vztahu však není přáno, a tak Ned odchází pracovat pro princeznu Alžbětu. Ve chvíli, kdy se Alžběta stane královnou, obrátí se proti Anglii celá Evropa. Chráněná oddanou skupinou nápaditých špehů a odvážných tajných agentů lpí na svém trůnu i zásadách. Skutečný boj totiž staví ty, kdo věří v toleranci a kompromis, proti tyranům, kteří všem ostatním vnucují své názory – ať to stojí cokoli…