The Washington Post, October 14th, 2007
WORLD WITHOUT END By Ken Follett Dutton. 1,014 pp. $35The millions of readers who enjoyed Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth (1989) will certainly enjoy its sequel, World Without End. While it would be grossly unfair to say that it's the same book with different characters, the similarities of structure give a definite feeling of deja vu. Set in the 14th century, 200 years after Pillars, the story again takes place in Kingsbridge, England, and deals with descendants of the original characters. While the plague has replaced civil war as a vector of random destruction, the pattern is similar: ...
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