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, ...
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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], a...
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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...
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Faber's Character
"Eye of the Needle" Essay
In the book "Eye of the Needle", Faber is a very intelligent man and is one of the best spies in the world-------he is a cheater, disguiser and a cold-bl...
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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...
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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...
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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 t...
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Ken Follett
Ken(neth) (Martin) Follett
Faber's Character in Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett is latest Oprah Winfrey pick
