



In 1989 The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author's most successful novel. Follett's first bestseller was Eye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War. Ken Follett is one of the world's best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. heart-stopping, nerve-freezing terror." - Los Angeles Times "A spy novel of the highest order." - The Baltimore Sun "Really thrilling." - The New York Times Book Review "An absolutely terrific thriller, so pulse-pounding, so ingenious in its plotting, and so frighteningly realistic that you simply cannot stop reading." - Publishers Weekly one of the twelve best thrillers from the last fifty years." - Rocky Mountain News "Extraordinarily satisfying. spellbinding." - The Miami Herald "Great. But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom-and win the war for the Nazis. The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning His code name was "The Needle." He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence-a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history.
