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Whiteout
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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«Jealousies, distrust, and hidden rivalries uncover dark secrets, then a dozen vials of a deadly virus go missing. As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. Several others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs are on their way to steal it, with a client already waiting. As the storm worsens and the group is laid under siege by the elements, the emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets are revealed that threaten to drive Stanley and his family apart for ever. Filled with startling twists, «Whiteout» is the ultimate knife-edge drama from an international bestselling author who is in a class by himself. 'Few writers can come up with the thrills more effectively than Ken Follett' — «Guardian». 'A new breed of thriller...Follett drags readers to the very edge of their seats and holds them captive until the very last villain is satisfactorily dispatched' — «Publishers weekly».»
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Мир без конца
Автор: Фоллетт Кен Жанр: Зарубежная историко-приключенческая проза Год: 2011 Страниц: 800 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20142012-06-11
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«Англия. XIV век. Время начала Столетней войны, эпидемии чумы, блеска и роскоши двора Эдуарда III и превращения небольшой страны в самую могущественную державу Европы. Эпоха — глазами четырех персонажей... Когда-то двое мальчишек и две девочки росли на узких улочках города, славного своим легендарным собором... Теперь им предстоит пережить «эпоху перемен», которые постигнут Англию. Один добьется власти и могущества — и дорого за это заплатит... Другой будет странствовать по свету — и вечно тосковать по дому... Третья испытает весь ужас столкновения с всемогущей Церковью... Четвертая попытается вопреки ударам судьбы найти счастье... Но сейчас — никто еще не знает, что и кому сулит будущее. Масштабная историческая сага Кена Фоллетта продолжается!»
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The Pillars of the Earth
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 1087 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092009-07-23
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Nothing happens the way you plan it. A lot of people were surprised by The Pillars of the Earth, including me. I was known as a thriller writer. In the book-business, when you have had a success, the smart thing to do is write the same sort of thing once a year for the rest of your life. Clowns should not try to play Hamlet; pop stars should not write symphonies. I should not have risked my reputation by writing something out of character and overarobitious. What's more, I don't believe in God. I'm not what you would call a spiritual person, According to my agent, my greatest problem as a writer is that I'm not a tortured soul. The last thing anyone would have expected from me was a story about building a church So Pillars was an unlikely book for me to write — and I almost didn't. I started it, then dropped it, and did not look at it again for ten years. This is how it happened...
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Fall of Giants
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2011 Страниц: 864 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20132015-03-18
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«This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, «Fall of Giants» moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.»
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Jackdaws
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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«Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications — but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail. From the master storyteller and best-selling author of «Eye of the Needle» and «Code to Zero» comes the new thriller, set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action. «Jackdaws» is an irresistible novel of the Resistance and of love, courage and revenge.»
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Code to Zero
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Страниц: 466 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20092004-02-16
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In January, 1958, America's best hope to catch up with the Russians in the space race sits on a pad at Cape Canaveral. But the launch of the Explorer I satellite is delayed due to the weather, even though it is a sunny day. The real reason rests deep in the mind of a NASA scientist who wakes that morning with his memory completely erased — he knows a dark secret someone wants him to forget.
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The Key to Rebecca
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1981 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20091983-10-13
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«His code name: «The Sphinx». His mission: to send Rommel's advancing army the secrets that would unlock the doors to Cairo... and the ultimate Nazi triumph in the war. And in all of Cairo, only two people could stop this brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent. One was a down-on-his-luck English officer no one would listen to. The other was a young Jewish girl...»
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Code to Zero
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20152014-07-21
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Three days that could change the world's political landscape... A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there. He does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken down and out, it isn't until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he begins to suspect all is not what it seems... The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite, in a desperate attempt to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the space race. As Luke Lucas gradually unravels the mystery of his amnesia, he realizes that his fate is bound up with that of the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral. And as he relearns the story of his life, he uncovers long-kept secrets about his wife, his best friend and the woman he once loved more than life itself...
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A Dangerous Fortune
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20091996-07-24
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Political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murders and financial crises... old-fashioned entertainment! In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men's club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London's upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the world's wealth, Ken Follett conjures up a stunning array of contrasts. This breathtaking novel portrays a family splintered by lust, bound by a shared legacy... men and women swept toward a perilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy's death, must be stopped, or not just one man's dreams, but those of a nation, will die... Breathlessly plotted... relentlessly suspensenseful. Gripping, complex plot... sexual intrigue... fascinating characters... you won't be able to put down this exciting page-turner!
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Гибель гигантов
Автор: Фоллетт Кен Жанр: Зарубежная историко-приключенческая проза Год: 2012 Страниц: 896 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152015-09-20
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Действие романа относится к началу XX века и охватывает события, происходящие в канун Первой мировой войны, а также военное и послевоенное время. Главные его герои — заводские рабочие и интеллектуалы, шахтеры, политики и аристократы России, Германии, Англии и США, чьи судьбы переплелись в затейливый и непредсказуемый узор. На их глазах рушится старый мир и гибнут империи, а их жизни вмещают в себя и эпохальные события, и неисчислимые беды, и тихие радости.
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Triple
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20112012-10-20
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The world's balance of power is about to shift dangerously as the ultimate weapon nears completion in a secret facility in the heart of the desert. Across the globe, operatives from the great nations set a deadly game in motion, covertly maneuvering pawns and kings to achieve a frightening advantage — while terrorists and their hunters prepare for the contest's final bloody moves. And one man — a razor-sharp master of disguise, deceit, and triple-cross — must somehow do the impossible: steal 200 tons of uranium without any of the other players discovering the theft.
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The Man from St Petersburg
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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It is just before the outbreak of World War I and Britain must enlist the aide of Russia. Czar Nicholas' nephew is to visit London for secret naval talks with Lord Walden, who has lived in Russia and has a Russian wife, Lydia. But there are other people who are interested in the arrival of Prince Alexei: the Waldens' only daughter, Charlotte — willful, idealistic, and with an awakening social conscience; Basil Thompson, head of the Special Branch; and, above all, Feliks Kschessinky, the ruthless Russian anarchist. No one could have foretold that Lydia should recognize Feliks, or that she might put her own daughter's life at risk for his sake. As the secret negotiations progress, the destinies of these characters become ineluctably enmeshed. And as Europe prepares for the catastrophe of war, the final private tragedy which will shatter the complacency of the Waldens is acted out.
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The Pillars of the Earth
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 1100 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20122013-02-19
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The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known... of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect — a man divided in his soul... of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame... and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother. A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this title is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece. 'Enormous and brilliant... this mammoth tale seems to touch all human emotion — love and hate, loyalty and treachery, hope and despair. This is truly a novel to get lost in — Cosmopolitan. A historical saga of such breadth and density... Follett succeeds brilliantly in combining hugeness and detail to create a novel imbued with the rawness, violence and blind faith of the era — Sunday Express.
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Night over Water
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1992 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20091994-10-27
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September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most luxurious airliner — the legendary Pan Am clipper — takes off for its final flight to neutral America. Aboard are the cream of society and the dregs of humanity, all fleeing the war for reasons of their own… shadowed by a danger they do not know exists… and heading straight into a storm of violence, intrigue, and betrayal...
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Winter of the World
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20162015-10-31
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Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism.
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Night Over Water
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152017-08-31
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On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain has declared war, a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southampton to board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built — the Pan American Clipper, bound for New York: an English aristocrat, fleeing with his family and a fortune in jewels; a German scientist, escaping from the Nazis; a murderer under FBI escort; a young wife running away from a domineering husband; and a handsome, unscrupulous thief...
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Jack Daws
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092005-09-17
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Jackdaws is one of the most stirring, successful, and popular thrillers of Ken Follett's career-a patriotic adventure that has won the hearts of readers and critics alike. But perhaps People magazine said it best: Returning to the World War II setting of his bestselling thrillers Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca, Follett once again strikes Nazi pay dirt.
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Winter of the World
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 890 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-04-12
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Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism.
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Whiteout
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 474 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20102009-03-29
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As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks-jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries-crackle, desperate secrets are revealed, hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge.
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World Without End
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2014 Страниц: 1200 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20152016-10-11
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On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change. 'Follett's storytelling skills keep you compulsively turning the pages to the satisfactory ending of good triumphant over evil.'
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