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Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy Audiobook
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EDGE OF ETERNITY is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy.
Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families – American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh – as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution – and rock and roll.
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives.…George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy’s Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own.…Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he’d imagined.…Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw – and into history.
As always with Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. With the hand of a master, he brings us into a world we thought we knew but now will never seem the same again.
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"I like Ken Follett's style of writing and storytelling, and that's just how it is. Edge was the portion of the trilogy set during my own lifetime, so I felt a special affinity for the events covered and greatly enjoyed seeing those events unfold in the views of the characters. John Lee's narration was, as always, consistently engaging and fantastic to listen to. So far, so good: I've yet to read a single Follett title that didn't keep my attention through to the last page."
— barb (4 out of 5 stars)
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“By the end of this final audiobook in Follett’s engrossing trilogy of the twentieth century, listeners will have just one question: Is there anything narrator John Lee can’t do? Lee deftly delivers the array of accents needed for this novel featuring five interconnected families who witness the major political, social, and cultural events of the last seventy years. Not only does Lee create a distinctive voice for each of the many characters, whether German, Russian, British, or American, he also believably renders the speech of historical figures, such as JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr. Lee’s exceptional performance is rounded out by a keen sense of pacing and emotion, whether he’s delivering a tender love scene or conveying the horrors of a race riot. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“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.”
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“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 storylines together in the end. A well-written entertainment.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week for September 2014
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A #1 New York Times bestseller
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A #1 USA Today bestseller
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An iTunes Top Seller
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A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
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A #1 Publishers Weekly bestseller
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A Chicago Tribune bestseller
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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One of Audible’s Best Audiobooks of 2014: Series conclusions
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About Ken Follett
Ken Follett is one of the world’s best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. His first bestseller was Eye of the Needle, an Edgar Award–winning spy story set in the Second World War. In 1989 The Pillars of the Earth was published and has since become the author’s most successful novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah’s Book Club pick. The series has sold more than fifty million copies worldwide and hitting the New York Times bestsellers list.
About John Lee
John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is an accomplished stage actor and has written and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.