Ken Follet

Dee, a young art historian, discovers the possible existence of a rare picture of Modigliani that can be found in an Italian village, from which he informs his uncle Charles, a London galerist. But Cardwell, a wealthy collector of paintings, is launching an operation to take over the Modigliani...

It is 1944 and weeks before D-Day. The Allies are disguising their invasion plans with a phoney armed of ships and plans. Their plan would be scupped if an enemy agent found out... and then, Hitler's prize agent, "The Needle," does just that. Hunted by MI5, he leads a murderous trail across Britain to a waiting U-Boat. But he didn't plan for a storm- battered island, and the remarkable young woman who lives there.

Alex Wolff, a German citizen whose stepfather was Egyptian, makes a strenuous journey through the desert in order to reach Cairo. Thanks to its contacts in the city and its mastery of the Arabic language, it has great qualities to become one of the main German spies in the battle in North Africa. Wolff, a fervent nationalist, dreams of contributing to the victory of Nazi Germany in World War II and the expulsion of the British from Egypt.

An English aristocrat, Lord Walden, married to a woman of the Russian nobility, receives a private message from the King of England in which he calls for his collaboration on a matter of vital importance. We are in the early 20th century, just before the explosion of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. The King of England and the Zarist Empire want to establish mysterious and secret covenant covenants. The collaboration is carried out through Prince Orlov who is located in London par

Ross Perot, American billionaire, orders Bull Simons, retired Colonel of the Green Boins and veteran of World War II and Vietnam, to rescue two important leaders of his company imprisoned in the revolutionary Tehran of Jomeini

Surrounded by wild mountains, the Lions Valley is a legendary place in Afghanistan where customs and people have barely changed over the centuries. A very appropriate scenario for a story of espionage and intrigue starring a young English woman, a French doctor and an American trotamunds, going on in the most terrible stage of the war against the Soviet invasion.

The Pillars of the Earth is a historic novel by Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England. It is set in the middle of the 12th century, primarily during the Anarchy, between the time of the winding of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Becket. The book traces the development of Gothic architecture out of the preceding Romanesque architecture, and the fortunes of the Kingsbridge priority and village against the backdrop of h

In the mouth of the dragon is a police novel by British author Ken Follett set in California. The translation of his title is too free because the original title, The Hammer of Eden, could be translated by "The Hammer of Eden.".

Oxenford Medical is a Scottish biological experimentation company. The extreme and modern security measures to avoid any incident fail when Christmas night under an intense snow season, a very dangerous virus disappears. The theory that it can be an act of terrorism is being confirmed to become a certainty. Family problems, debts, gambling, loves and extreme weather events are the ingredients of this police thriller that develops the plot in just two days around Christmas.

The novel covers a 34-year period of the 14th century, between 1327 and 1361, almost at the end of the Middle Ages and is mainly set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge in the southwest of England. It shows the importance of wool manufacturing and trade first and after the cloth in the development of Europe and especially England. How, around these activities, cities flourished and trade developed through the formation of trade unions and fairs. He also describes the institutions and life of the feudal era, the power relations between the nobility and the clergy and these with the members of the flat state

a action takes place between 22 June 1911, the day George V was crowned in Westminster Abbey, and the end of 1924, several years after the end of World War I. They mix real historical characters like King George V himself, Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of the Foreign Office) and Winston Churchill, with other fiction characters like Billy Williams, who has been working in the coal mines of Wales since the age of 13, and his father David Williams, a prominent member of the mining union.

In 1933, Berlin was a focus of political and social unrest. Lady Maud, now Walter von Ulrich's wife and mother of two children, publishes articles in a weekly magazine that ridicule the Nazi party while her husband expresses opposition in the government. However, it seems that nothing can stop the ascending power of Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

Year 997, late Dark Age. England faces the attacks of the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Life is difficult and those who have some power exercise it with an iron fist and often in conflict with the king himself.

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