Follett, Ken (1949—)
Writer Ken Follett burst upon the American fiction scene in 1978 with his mystery spy story Eye of the Needle. A taut thriller, it portrayed a central female character risi...
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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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Critical Essay by Roderick Macleish
If Frederick Forsyth could write as well as he can plot and if John Le Carré could plot as well as he can write, one of them might have produced Eye Of The N...
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Critical Essay by Michael Wood
Eye of the Needle [is] a deft thriller….
The book is smartly put together along lines suggested by Frederick Forsyth and John Le Carré. As in The Day of th...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
["Triple"] is eminently qualified for … popularity, for its behind-the-scenes interpretation of contemporary events includes everything in the po...
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Critical Essay by Lisa Derman
There are no secrets and few surprises in Triple, but Ken Follett knows other ways to keep tension high in his thrillers. Follett has taken one convention of the spy-nove...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lekachman
Ken Follett's forte is the variation upon history. His previous best seller, Eye of the Needle, concerned a demon German spy in England who nearly won the war...
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Critical Essay by Peter Andrews
"The Key to Rebecca" is an assured best seller even before publication, with a first printing of 100,000 copies, a major subsidiary success with sales to ...
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Follett, Ken (1949—)
Ken Follett
Ken(neth) (Martin) Follett
