Edge of Eternity (Abridged): Book Three of the Century Trilogy Audiobook

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• [Follett] is a commanding storyteller who has taken on an impossibly large task and accomplished it with passion, intelligence, and skill. Like its predecessors, Edge of Eternity is a solid, rigorously researched work of popular fiction. It's an honest entertainment that brings back vivid, sometimes painful, memories of the not-too-distant past.

  — The Washington Post

• Edge of Eternity is as compulsively readable a mighty page-turner as its two predecessors.

  — The Seattle Times 

• Hugely ambitious, the trilogy serves as a massive history lesson as well as an example of good, old-fashioned storytelling.

  — The New York Daily News

• "Follett never forgets he is telling a story. The historical events are the backdrop but the characters are the focal point. Good storytellers know this and Follett is an excellent one.

  — The Huffington Post

• "Mesmerizing . . . flowing with spicy, expertly paced melodrama, character-rich exploits, familial histrionics, and international intrigue.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• Worth the wait. . . . Once again, Follett has written pitch-perfect popular fiction that readers will devour.

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• A glorious conclusion to a remarkable trilogy that is wonderful, exhilarating reading for all ages. Fine, fine historical fiction.

  — Historical Novel Society 

• Follett does an outstanding job of interweaving and personalizing complicated narratives set on a multicultural stage.

  — Booklist

• Follett . . . knows how to turn in a robust yarn without too much slack . . . a well-written entertainment.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• A fascinating, sprawling, epic conclusion to Ken Follett's Century Trilogy.

  — The Minneapolis Star Tribune 

• This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there were a thousand more pages.

  — The Huffington Post

• Some of the biggest-picture fiction being written today.

  — The Seattle Times

• Follett's real gifts are those of a natural storyteller: swift, cinematic pacing, the ability to juggle multiple narratives coherently, and an eye for the telling detail . . . a consistently compelling portrait of a world in crisis.

  — The Washington Post

• Gripping . . . powerful.

  — The New York Times

• Masterfully sweeping stories . . . political intrigue, amorous episodes, suspense, and drama. History comes to life.

  — The Louisville Courier-Journal 

• Follett is so good at plotting a story, even one that takes on such a complex topic as the World War II era. That's what makes Winter of the World so hard to put down. You want to know what happens next.

  — The Associated Press

• An entertaining historical soap opera.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• "The man tells a story so well. . . . Follett can make things glow with some beautifully written episodes. . . . If you read Volume I, you'll have to read Volume II. And once you read Volume II, you'll be committed to reading Volume III. See you in a couple of years.

  — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• Clips along at a brisk pace. . . . He knows how to keep the pages turning and how to make the reader feel a kinship with the characters' struggles. . . . No matter the ultimate destination, readers can expect to savor the journey—and agonize while waiting for the final book to arrive.

  — The Christian Science MonitorPraise for Fall of Giants  

• Follett is masterly in conveying so much drama and historical information so vividly . . . grippingly told.

  — The New York Times Book Review 

• Fall of Giants: Follett at his finest. . . . [a] sweeping epic that will thrill his fans for hours on end.

  — The Huffington Post

• Follett conjures the winds of war.

  — The Washington Post 

• Tantalizing.

  — Newsday

• A good read. . . . It’s a book that will suck you in, consume you for days or weeks . . . then let you out the other side both entertained and educated.

  — USA Today

• Follett entwines fiction and factual events well. . . . This is a dark novel, motivated by an unsparing view of human nature and a clear-eyed scrutiny of an ideal peace. It is not the least of Follett's feats that the reader finishes this near thousand-page book intrigued and wanting more.

  — Chicago Sun-Times

• Follett once again creates a world at once familiar and fantastic. . . . A guiltless pleasure, the book is impossible to put down. . . . Empires fall. Heroes rise. Love conquers. After going through a war with these characters, you're left hoping that Follett gets moving with the next giant installment.

  — Time Out

• Grand in scope, scale, and story.

  — The Associated Press

• Suspenseful, tightly constructed, sharply characterized, plot-driven.

  — The Seattle Times 

• “In the ambitious, commanding capstone to his multigenerational Century trilogy, Follett expertly chronicles the pivotal events of the closing decades of the twentieth century through the eyes of a vast array of deftly-drawn characters…Mesmerizing.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “The final volume in Follett’s latest trilogy (after Fall of Giants and Winter of the World) is worth the wait…Once again, Follett has written pitch-perfect popular fiction that readers will devour.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “Those eagerly awaiting volume three of Follett’s ambitious Century Trilogy will not be disappointed…Follett does an outstanding job of interweaving and personalizing complicated narratives set on a multicultural stage.”

  — Booklist

• “Another sprawling, multigenerational, continent-spanning saga from long-practiced pop-fiction writer Follett…Follett, while not delivering the edge-of-the-seat tautness of Eye of the Needle, knows how to turn in a robust yarn without too much slack, even in a book as long as this…Follett writes of those young hipsters with a fustiness befitting Michener, and indeed there’s a Michenerian-epic feeling to the whole enterprise, as if The Drifters had gotten mashed up with John le Carré and Pierre Salinger…He does a good job of tying disparate story lines together in the end. A well-written entertainment.”

  — Kirkus Reviews