Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett

Edge of Eternity

By Ken Follett

  • Release Date: 2014-09-16
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 3,369 Ratings

Description

Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion.

In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll.

East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.

Reviews

  • The Edge of Eternity

    3
    By Emotionally Disturbed
    Once again Follet has delivered an astounding account of the era of segregation in the USA. As a Republican I did not care for his comments from that period. Yes. Nixon was an evil man but don’t color us all as evil. I did my student teaching in a predominantly black school, and loved the children as my own. During my teen years, I brought a group of my swimming pals home. One was black! My mother was shocked but I didn’t see the difference.
  • Edge of Eternity

    1
    By tokee555
    I finished this book purely out of a sense of duty, but I couldn't wait to turn the last page and put it down. Way too preachy, historically inaccurate and wildly time after time, and the characters were flat, poorly developed, and tiresome.
  • Edge of Eternity

    3
    By NoBrainerToMe
    Follet is a great story teller mixing in history with fictional characters. He took the baby killing too far in Vietnam as heroes fought in and sacrificed there lives, limbs and minds. He did not try to conceal his hatred of Reagan. Reagan is a hero to many Americans. He bucked his constituents in taking on Gorbachev while setting the table for the eventual take down of the Berlin Wall. His economic policy in cutting taxes also set the table for recovering the economy after Carter allowed ungodly interest rates and inflation with his policies. Follet’s hero, Obama, took our nation backwards with racism back to the 1950’s. If you’re into romance novels you will love this book as he could make some romance novelists blush. As usual, he championed strong women, which is great but he also championed gay rights which was unnecessary. I give his writing ability a 5, and his content a 2, thus an overall 3.5.
  • Edge of Eternity

    2
    By alan513894520
    Liked his other books but his hate for any Republican leadership in the US and his strong bias made this difficult to read and take seriously.
  • Irrelevant

    2
    By B Stelter CNN
    Follett should have stopped at WWII. No attempt at objectivity here. And that diminishes his earlier works in my mind. Too bad
  • Liberal take on history

    1
    By Night Ranger rocks
    Obviously a very liberal take on history which is very disappointing given how much I have enjoyed his other books. Don’t think I’ll be giving him any more of my money if this liberal drivel is what I am going to be reading.
  • Loved it!

    5
    By NJSGuitar
    Not only is this a terrific story line, I enjoyed the historical detail. Book was total entertainment and enlightenment! Eager to read the next one!
  • Century Trilogy

    5
    By SophieBergdolt2
    An extraordinary series with exquisite detail to history and to characters. Sad to see it come to an end.
  • Wonderfully written

    5
    By FG900
    As someone who enjoys historical fiction, this is one of the all time greats!! Bravo!
  • Fun, completely wrongheaded, fictional account of the fall of militant communism

    2
    By Johnny 5 par
    Follet will be a great spokesman for the non militant form of communism currently gaining steam in the US. The new propagandistic form of media will applaud this revisionist history.