- English Spy stories, Fiction, German Espionage, Germans
One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -- code name: "The Needle" -- who holds the key to ultimate Nazi victory.Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.All will come to a terrifying conclusion in Ken Follett's unsurpassed and…
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Ken Follett
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- Berkley, Jiangsu Phoenix, Avon Books
- Editions
- 83
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, Chinese, German
- ISBN
- 9781447285236
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“IT WAS THE COLDEST WINTER FOR FORTY-FIVE YEARS.”
Ken Follett is a British author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more then 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list : *The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple* and *World Without End*.
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