Edge of Eternity: Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, 3)

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Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director. For example, if Bobby Kennedy hadn’t been shot and become President in 1968 rather than Nixon, would the Vietnam war have ended sooner and thousand of lives have been saved? Granted lots of literary license to have his various families in the center of all that was happening, but how else could the story be told.

Several of them—notably George Jakes, Rebecca Held and Dimka Dvorkin—find themselves in positions of political power and influence near, but not at, the top of their countries’ governments across several decades. His celebrated PILLARS OF THE EARTH was voted into the top 100 of Britain's best-loved books in the BBC's the Big Read and the sequel, WORLD WITHOUT END, was published to critical acclaim. Once again there is an interest of the world politics and how incidents and decisions impact us all.If you’re a boomer, you know the people, places, and events covered by the book: John Kennedy, MLK, Berlin wall, Beatles, Dylan, Civil Rights, Voting Rights. It seems, that much like in real life, something was lost between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers. The principal point-of-view character in the United States setting is George Jakes, a young lawyer and Harvard graduate who works for Attorney General Robert Kennedy during John Kennedy's presidential administration. Vietnam was pretty glossed over earlier, and I shit you not, there is not a single mention of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, despite there being two POV characters based out of the USSR and the theme of the USSR losing money and status being a central theme of the later chapters. So I look at several copies,before I decide that this is the one), I counted 5 people either asking an employee about where the latest Ken Follett novel is, or a couple people discussing how excited they were to read it.

Dimitri and Natalia do so clandestinely in the Soviet Politburo, while George Jakes is able to defy his superiors a little more openly while working for the department of justice under Bobby Kennedy. The graceful old streets of central Berlin still had gaps from wartime bombing, except where new concrete buildings stood up like ill-matched false teeth. The spin made me question the accuracy of the historical elements in previous two books of the Century Trilogy. Her grandfather had been a Social Democrat member of the Reichstag, the national parliament, until Hitler came to power. Rebecca looked around for something else to throw at him, and her gaze fell on the matchstick model of the Brandenburg Gate.in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as they add their personal stories and insight to the most defining events of the 20th century. He taught physics, but he shared Rebecca’s interest in Russian literature, and they ate their lunchtime sandwiches together a couple of times a week.