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Ken Follett
Edge of Eternity - Century Trilogy
Englisch · Taschenbuch
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Beschreibung
Zusatztext 71290064 Informationen zum Autor Ken Follett Klappentext Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: 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 Hoffmann 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 of not only 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 an 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, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw-and into history. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now.***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof*** Copyright © 2014 Ken Follett CHAPTER ONE Rebecca Hoffmann was summoned by the secret police on a rainy Monday in 1961. It began as an ordinary morning. Her husband drove her to work in his tan Trabant 500. 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. Hans was thinking about his job as he drove. “The courts serve the judges, the lawyers, the police, the government—everyone except the victims of crime,” he said. “This is to be expected in Western capitalist countries, but under Communism the courts ought surely to serve the people. My colleagues don’t seem to realize that.” Hans worked for the Ministry of Justice. “We’ve been married almost a year, and I’ve known you for two, but I’ve never met one of your colleagues,” Rebecca said. “They would bore you,” he said immediately. “They’re all lawyers.” “Any women among them?” “No. Not in my section, anyway.” Hans’s job was administration: appointing judges, scheduling trials, managing courthouses. “I’d like to meet them, all the same.” Hans was a strong man who had learned to rein himself in. Watching him, Rebecca saw in his eyes a familiar flash of anger at her insistence. He controlled it by an effort of will. “I’ll arrange something,” he said. “Perhaps we’ll all go to a bar one evening.” Hans had been the first man Rebecca met who matched up to her father. He was confident and authoritative, but he always listened to her. He had a good job—not many people had a car of their own in East Germany—and men who worked in the government were usually hardline Communists, but Hans, surprisingly, shared Rebecca’s political skepticism. Like her father he was tall, handsome, and well dressed. He was the man she had been waiting for. Only once during their courtship had she doubted him, briefly. They had been in a minor car crash. It had been wholly the fault of the other driver, who had come out of a side street without stopping. Such things happened every day, but Hans had been mad with rage. Although the damage to the two ...
Produktdetails
Autoren | Ken Follett |
Verlag | Penguin Books USA |
Sprache | Englisch |
Produktform | Taschenbuch |
Erschienen | 30.09.2016 |
EAN | 9780451474025 |
ISBN | 978-0-451-47402-5 |
Seiten | 1136 |
Abmessung | 105 mm x 171 mm x 37 mm |
Serien |
The Century Trilogy 152 POCHE 152 POCHE The Century Trilogy |
Thema |
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