For the Pilasters, sex and love are weapons in a war for power and wealth and one explosive secret becomes the weak link that can bring down a dynasty. In 1866, a pupil at an exclusive public school drowns in a mysterious accident involving several boys. Among them are young Hugh Pilaster; his cousin Edward, the weak dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the darkly handsome son of a brutal South American land owner. The drowning and its aftermath initiate a spiralling circle of treachery that will last for three decades and entwine many lives.
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Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom. From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers are propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever. -
Code to Zero: Ken Follett
$18.00A 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 bum, it isn’t until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he suspects 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. -
Book II of The Century trilogy. 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. -
Fall Of Giants: Ken Follett
$7.00–$20.00Book One of the Century Trilogy. Master tale-spinner Follett tells of five families brought together through the dramas of the World War I, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for votes for women. In 1911, on King George's coronation day, 13-year-old Billy begins his first day at work in a coal mine. Drama and intrigue move on from this point, from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the filth and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace and from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. -
Hornet Flight: Ken Follett
$12.00June, 1941 - and a baffling Luftwaffe message mentioning a new invention code named Freya is picked up by the decoders of Allied Intelligence. Hermia Mount, a British Intelligence analyst, suspects the existence of a experimental radar station on the coast of Denmark. Meanwhile, young Harald Olufsen, a brilliant Danish student, has spotted an unusual installation near his island home. Unable to resist a challenge, Harald is soon drawn into Hermia's investigation, but when he finally learns the truth, he finds the only way of getting to England with the information is in a near derelict Hornet Moth biplane, mouldering away in the nave of a ruined church... -
Jackdaws: Ken Follett
$8.00Two 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... -
Jackdaws: Ken Follett
$15.00Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau housing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and fails dismally. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team - the Jackdaws - and penetrate the chateau in disguise. But unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And he is on Flick's trail...Ken Follett dedicated this book to the fifty women who were sent into France as secret agents. -
When Jane is caught in a deadly love triangle between rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre, she becomes entangled in a web of lust, hatred and deception which sweeps them all from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to all out guerilla warfare in Afghanistan. Jean-Pierre and Jane marry and got to work as doctors in the Valley of the Five Lions to help the rebels fighting for their freedom against the Russians. Confronted by extreme violence and danger, Jane desperately tries to get out of the line of fire. Then help comes, unexpectedly, in the form of her husband's greatest enemy...