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Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

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Name: Ken Follett
Birth Date: June 5, 1949
Place of Birth: Cardiff, Wales
Nationality: British, Welsh
Gender: Male
Occupations: Novelist

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Biography of Ken(neth) (Martin) Follett
5515 words, approx. 18.4 pages
Ken Follett began his career as a fiction writer while working for the London Evening News. He produced a series of mysteries and thrillers (two for children) under various pseudonyms until he felt he had learned enough and written well enough to author...
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Biography of Ken Follet
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Ken Follett was born in Wales, "in a little terrace house in Cardiff in 1949. It was very much a petit-bourgeois background. My dad was a clerk in the Inland Revenue [English equivalent of the IRS], and I went to state schools. "At that time I wanted to...
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Biography of Ken Follett
3387 words, approx. 11.3 pages
Ken Follett, author of best-selling thrillers such as Eye of the Needle, Triple, The Key to Rebecca, The Man from St. Petersburg, The Third Twin, The Hammer of Eden, Code to Zero, and the 2001 title, Jackdaws, has created a winning blend of historical ev...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Eye of the Needle Information
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Eye of the Needle is a spy thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett. It was originally published in 1978 by the Penguin Group titled Storm Island. This novel was Follett's first successful, bestselling effort as a novelist, and it earned him...


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Albuquerque Journal
Eye Of The Needle
04/26/2004: 1,279 words, approx. 4 pages
Doctor says new acupuncture treatment for macular degeneration improves sight SANTA FE -- Most people would cringe at the thought of a needle in their eye. Yet, earlier this month, Irene von Horvath lay serenely in Dr. Alston Lundgren's examining room, her...
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Assembly
The Eye Of The Needle.
02/01/2001: 1,902 words, approx. 6 pages
To maintain market leadership, Becton Dickinson had to reconfigure its operations to assemble new, more complicated medical devices--and do it quickly. ON NOV. 6, 2000, PRESIDENT Clinton signed a law requiring health care facilities to use syringes and catheters with retractable needles...
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AP News
Ken Follett is latest Oprah Winfrey pick
11/15/2007: 317 words, approx. 1 pages
Oprah Winfrey went for the big time Wednesday with her latest book club pick, choosing Ken Follett's 973-page "The Pillars of the Earth," an announcement that will likely mean hundreds of thousands more sales for an author with a huge, international following.Winfrey, whose TV talk...
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The New York Observer
A Stylish Contradiction: Furst\'d5s Romantic Realism
6/11/2006: 1,167 words, approx. 4 pages
Throughout his elegant and compact sequence of espionage novels set in the Europe of the 1930’s and 40’s—The Foreign Correspondent is the ninth—Alan Furst has been trying to marry romance and dread. This is not something that would have occurred to Eric Ambler who, in...
 


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Faber's Character in Eye of the Needle
957 words, approx. 3 pages
A character analysis of the German spy Faber in Ken Follett's novel Eye of the Needle. In the book, Faber is an intelligent cheat, a master of disguise, and a cold-blooded killer. However, he also feels desperately lonely, as in his line of work, he can trust no one.


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Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

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