Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy

· The Century Trilogy Book 3 · Sold by Penguin
4.4
429 reviews
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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.

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4.4
429 reviews
Scott H
November 28, 2014
For me, this was an unfortunate and unworthy finale to this series. Clumsy (not to mention wordy) narrative that spent too much time on peccadillos rather than politics. The characters were at best derivative caricatures of whatever period the book was in. The major players were unlikeable either for their morals or their monumental stupidity. I was so very disappointed.
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B K
November 26, 2014
Overall it was a decent book. Not quite as good as the first two. What I enjoyed most frankly was being introduced to a lot of events, places and people I was unfamiliar with, then going off and doing research on. Mr Follett allows his obvious political biases to intrude further into the story than I personally cared for, but that's obviously his right to do as the author.
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Justin Hillstead
January 20, 2015
Worst book out of the trilogy hands down. He cherry picks his events to really demonize Republicans and give credit to the Democrats for our nations positive changes. Not that many don't deserve the criticism but follett is way to blatant about it. Characters are way too idealistic and boring for the reader to care.
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About the author

Ken Follett is one of the world’s best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. Follett’s first bestseller was Eye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War. 

In 1989 The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author’s most successful novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah’s Book Club pick.
 
Its sequels, World Without End and A Column of Fire, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide.
 
Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors.

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