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A Column of Fire is a 2017 novel by British author Ken Follett, [1] first published on 12 September 2017. [2] It is the third book in the Kingsbridge Series, and serves as a sequel to 1989's The Pillars of the Earth and 2007's World Without End. [3] [4]
Night Over Water is a thriller novel written by author Ken Follett in 1991.. Night Over Water is a fictionalized account of the final flight of the Pan American Clipper passenger airplane during the first few days of World War II, early September, 1939.
Set in a version of the present day, Never charts several different major events with the power to cause a global upheaval: a pair of agents trailing terrorists in the Sahara; a Chinese spymaster with political ambitions; a woman being trafficked by people smugglers; the United States' first female president navigates a minefield while dueling her blustering political opponent.
The book is set just before the outbreak of World War I, against the background of the Anglo-German naval arms race.It is an account of how the lives of the main characters were interwoven with the success or failure of secret naval talks between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire.
The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. [1] [2] It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to A Column of Fire.The Armour of Light takes place in the years 1792–1824 in Kingsbridge, the same fictional English town in The Pillars of the Earth.
At the beginning of the book, despite having brilliantly solved a case, she does not get a well-deserved promotion which will instead go to a colleague of hers, a friend of her direct superior. Despite this, faced with the threat of the group The Hammer of Eden Judy manages to emerge and be appreciated by the upper echelons.
Jackdaws is a World War II spy thriller written by British novelist Ken Follett. [1] [2] [3] It was published in hardcover format in 2001 by Dutton Books, then reissued as a paperback book by Signet Books in 2002. An audiobook narrated by Kate Reading was released in August 2002. [4] [5]
The book's prologue describes a chance meeting of several people in Oxford University in 1947. The main character is Nathaniel "Nat" Dickstein, a victim of experimentation in the Nazi concentration camps who later becomes an Israeli agent; also the American Alan "Al" Cortone, of Italian origin, whose life Dickstein saved in Sicily; and the Russian chessmaster David Rostov, who subsequently ...