Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors. Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Its sequels, World Without End and A Column of Fire, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah's Book Club pick. Listen to Eye of the Needle A Novel by Ken Follett available from Rakuten Kobo. In 1989 The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author's most successful novel. He is the author of numerous immensely popular books, including Eye of the Needle, Triple, The Key to Rebecca, The Man From St. Follett's first bestseller was Eye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War. Ken Follett is one of the world's best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. His celebrated PILLARS OF THE EARTH was voted into the top 100 of Britains best-loved books in the BBCs the Big Read and the sequel, WORLD WITHOUT END, was published to critical acclaim.

heart-stopping, nerve-freezing terror.' - Los Angeles Times 'A spy novel of the highest order.' - The Baltimore Sun 'Really thrilling.' - The New York Times Book Review 'An absolutely terrific thriller, so pulse-pounding, so ingenious in its plotting, and so frighteningly realistic that you simply cannot stop reading.' - Publishers Weekly Ken Follett was only twenty-seven when he wrote the award-winning EYE OF THE NEEDLE, which became an international bestseller.

one of the twelve best thrillers from the last fifty years.' - Rocky Mountain News 'Extraordinarily satisfying. spellbinding.' - The Miami Herald 'Great. But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom-and win the war for the Nazis. The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning His code name was 'The Needle.' He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence-a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history.

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